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xHamster Announces 2024 Award Winners
xHamster has announced the winners of its second annual awards.
Kisscat Scores xHamster Awards Nomination
Kisscat has nabbed an xHamster Awards nomination for "Female Creator of the Year."
Serenity Cox Scores xHamster Awards Nomination
Serenity Cox has nabbed an xHamster Awards nomination for "Female Creator of the Year."
xHamster Announces 2024 Awards Competition
xHamster has announced that voting is now open for its 2024 Awards Competition.
Court Orders xHamster to Remove Dutch Amateur Content
An Amsterdam appeals court upheld a lower court decision ordering xHamster to remove all footage featuring Dutch people who have not given explicit permission for their images to be posted.
Texas AG Ken Paxton Sues Chaturbate, xHamster Over Controversial Age Verification Law
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed lawsuits on Tuesday against the parent companies of Chaturbate and xHamster, claiming that the sites are not complying with the state’s controversial age verification law, HB 1181.
xHamster Announces Inaugural Award Winners
xHamster has announced the winners of its first awards program.
Serenity Cox Scores 2023 xHamster Award
Serenity Cox has won the 2023 xHamster Award for Lesbian Creator of the Year
European Activist, NGOs Request DSA Reclassification of Top Adult Tube Sites
A group of European NGOs co-signed a letter penned by an Italian digital rights attorney and activist, urging the European Commission to investigate the self-reported data of the top adult sites in order to potentially reclassify them as “very large online platforms” (VLOPs) for the purposes of enforcing the Digital Services Act (DSA).
Dutch Court Orders xHamster to Get Model Consent for All Amateur Content
An Amsterdam court on Wednesday ordered Cyprus-based tube site xHamster to obtain consent from every Netherlands-based amateur model featured in videos posted on the site, or else remove those videos.
UK Government Reverses Policy, Threatens 'Crackdown' on Pornhub, xHamster
The U.K.’s Conservative government today reversed a longstanding position by vowing to “crack down on porn sites,” and selectively enforce controversial legislation by targeting four high-profile tube sites, including Pornhub and xHamster.
xHamster Affirms Commitment to 'Youth Media Protection' in Germany
xHamster signaled today that it is willing to work with German media authorities towards preventing minors in that country from accessing adult content.
German Regulator Who Shut Down xHamster Unveils New AI Surveillance Tool
The local official crusading for Germany to hide all sexual content behind an age verification wall unveiled this week an AI tool called KIVI, which automatically scans all online content to determine which images are not compliant with the law.
German Regulator Who Shut Down xHamster Describes Own Mission as 'Kafkaesque'
Tobias Schmid, the obscure local bureaucrat who spearheads Germany’s War on Porn and recently led a successful movement to force ISPs to ban xHamster in the country, gave an interview last week in which he admitted he has “no clear answer” on how to make age verification effective and acknowledged his anti-porn crusade is “a bit Kafkaesque.”
xHamster Effectively Blocked in Germany After Government Order
xHamster has been blocked in Germany following a government order to the country’s top internet service providers.
German ISPs Exploring Legal Challenge to Government Order to Block xHamster
Hours after the German government ordered the country’s major internet service providers to block xHamster, one of the ISPs, PŸUR, told a digital rights group that it reserves the right “to have the decision legally reviewed by an independent court with a view to the legal regulations of net neutrality.”
German Government Orders ISPs to Block xHamster
Germany’s Commission for Youth Media Protection decided unanimously on Thursday to impose a network ban on xHamster.
xHamster Releases '2021 Creator Report'
xHamster has released its 2021 Creator Report, including sales data and purchase habit data for over 30,000 customers.
Federal Agency Endorses Campaign by Germany's 'Top Anti-Porn Warrior'
The one-man War on Porn being conducted in Germany by an obscure, conservative local bureaucrat from the North Rhine-Westphalia region has now gone federal, with his attempt to “shut down” all major tube sites over alleged age-verification infractions receiving the blessing of the federal Commission for the Protection of Minors in the Media (Kommission für Jugendmedienschutz or KJM).
Germany's Top Censorship Advocate Moves Forward Against xHamster
Germany’s most vocal proponent of state censorship of adult content, an obscure local bureaucrat named Tobias Schmid who serves as the head of the State Media Authority (LMA) of North Rhine-Westphalia, announced this week he has identified the hosting provider of xHamster in order to continue actions towards blocking the site.