The state of Utah and the Federal Trade Commission have taken action and simultaneously reached a settlement with two of the world's largest porn sites — both of which have blocked viewers from the state from seeing their content.
The Utah Department of Commerce and its Division of Consumer Protection, the Utah Attorney General's Office and the FTC announced a consent order against Aylo, which operates Pornhub and Redtube over accusations the sites hosted child sexual abuse material and non-consensual sexual material (spycams and revenge porn). Aylo has agreed to pay a $5 million settlement.
Details of the agreement were to be announced at a Wednesday morning news conference on Utah's Capitol Hill.
The state alleges that Aylo allowed the content to be distributed on its sites, ignoring