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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...
Federal courts and lawmakers are wrestling with (CSAM): prosecutors treat such material as criminal under existing federal statutes in many cases, but constitutional limits from and recent district-co...
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...
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...
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...
criminalizes many forms of when the image depicts a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct or is “virtually indistinguishable” from such a depiction, but enforcement hinges on several legal thresh...
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...
— erotic or sexualized artwork depicting anthropomorphic juvenile animals (“cubs” or “babyfur”) — is not categorically illegal across the , but it occupies a volatile legal gray zone where specific fo...
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...
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 ’s recent litigation touched multiple First Amendment fault lines — from government pressure on private actors to speech rules for federal employees and social-media forum disputes — but the exact...
’s recent decisions—most prominently v. Paxton—have carved out a narrower protection for adults seeking by allowing states to require for material deemed “harmful to minors,” while signaling limits on...
The makes drawn or animated sexual depictions of minors prosecutable under federal law when they meet either a “computer-generated indistinguishable” standard or are found to be obscene under 18 U.S.C...
The in v. struck down parts of the that criminalized “virtual child pornography” — images that appear to depict minors but were produced without using real children — holding that those provisions wer...
Federal and lower courts are starting to draw a sharp line between AI- or computer-generated sexual images that do not involve real children and material that is based on or depicts actual minors, wit...
Federal law treats computer‑generated images that are "indistinguishable" from real children as through the definitional backbone in 18 U.S.C. § 2256 and through prosecutorial statutes such as 18 U.S....
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...