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A wave of state laws since 2022 has produced a patchwork of age‑verification mandates for adult websites; trade groups and civil‑liberties advocates say roughly half the states now require some form o...
Adult-content platforms that comply with recent U.S. state laws commonly accept standard government‑issued identity documents — typically a driver’s license, state ID card or passport — and increasing...
Federal statute 18 U.S.C. §2256 is broadly interpreted by federal agencies and many legal commentators to cover , but legal uncertainty remains for purely synthetic images not tied to real children. T...
As of mid‑2025, U.S. states led the world in passing mandatory age‑verification laws for adult websites: reporting varies but sources show between 19 and 25 states had enacted such laws by early-to-mi...
Prosecutors have begun using AI-chatbot logs and other AI-related digital traces as evidence in criminal cases outside of CSAM prosecutions, and reporting shows growing legal and policy activity aroun...
Courts and scholars defending deepfake and AI-generated sexual content against statutory bans have mainly invoked core First Amendment doctrines: that synthetic expression is speech, content-based res...
Courts have addressed defenses for accidental or inadvertent viewing or possession of child pornography, with judicial rulings and legal commentary repeatedly emphasizing that for many child‑pornograp...
Text-only sexual writing that depicts minors is treated far more permissively under U.S. law and constitutional doctrine than visual depictions: federal statutes and precedent focus criminal liability...
Federal and state law uniformly criminalize possession of child sexual abuse material (CSAM), but courts have split on whether passive viewing alone counts as “possession”; some jurisdictions treat in...
Creating, distributing, or possessing AI-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM) has been treated as illegal by many federal agencies and advocates, but key constitutional and statutory nuances m...
The materials provided show that the controversy in Docket No. 93952, People v. Alexander, arose after a trial court concluded that sections 11‑20.1(a) and 11‑20.1(a) of the Illinois child‑pornography...
Illinois appellate and supreme-court jurisprudence has treated virtual or cartoon depictions of minors in sexual contexts as a legally fraught area that sits at the intersection of state obscenity and...
The PROTECT Act of 2003 has been used to prosecute cases involving animated or drawn depictions of minors primarily by criminalizing “obscene” virtual child pornography and images that are “virtually ...
The Supreme Court in Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition struck down portions of the Child Pornography Prevention Act of 1996 (CPPA) that broadly banned “virtual” child pornography, holding those provis...
Federal and state courts have so far split treatment between AI-created sexual images that trace to real children—treated as traditional child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and aggressively prosecuted—...
Courts decide whether an image is "virtually indistinguishable" from a real child by applying statutory language, Supreme Court precedents, jury fact-finding and expert technical evidence to assess wh...
Multiple types of actors — government regulators, industry certifications and vendors, civil‑society watchdogs, and privacy and data‑protection authorities — now share responsibility for monitoring co...
U.S. courts currently evaluate probable cause from AI-generated CSAM flags under existing Fourth Amendment frameworks that require a judge to assess whether informant-style tips — here, algorithmic ou...
No country actually has a clean, law-free zone for production and distribution of explicit material: international treaties and national laws still bar child sexual abuse material, obscene material in...
Jurisdiction and local case law shape charging decisions for online speech in three concrete ways: they define which statutes apply (state v. federal), they set constitutional thresholds (e.g., First ...