On the strength of a multimillion-dollar settlement, the state of Utah and the Federal Trade Commission are holding the world’s largest porn sites accountable.
The Utah Department of Commerce’s Division of Consumer Protection, represented by the Office of the Utah Attorney General, and the FTC, announced on Wednesday a joint consent order with Aylo, a Canada-based company that owns some of the world’s most visited adult content sites, including Pornhub, Redtube, and more than 100 other pornographic video and photo websites.
The order alleges that since 2012, Aylo has profited from child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and non-consensual material (NCM) and ignored hundreds of warnings that such content was being uploaded and shared on its sites, while simultaneously deceiving the public thro