AUSTIN, July 1 -- The Texas Attorney General issued the following press release:
Attorney General Ken Paxton secured a landmark court order to cut off a pornographic website's ability to operate under its domain name after the company failed to take measures to protect children from the harmful sexual content it published. This legal victory establishes a significant precedent for enforcing age-verification laws against non-compliant foreign operators.
In April 2024, Attorney General Paxton sued Kick Online Entertainment ("Kick"), the owner of the pornographic website motherless.com, for violating Texas's age-verification law. He subsequently obtained a Default Judgment and Permanent Injunction requiring the company to stop publishing har...