Free Speech Coalition
@fsc.bsky.social
We are the 501(c)6 trade association that protects the rights & freedoms of the adult industry.
Save the date for the FSC Summit 2026 at XBIZ LA — Thursday, January 15th. It won’t be one to miss. We’ll see you there!
November 7, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Save the date for the FSC Summit 2026 at XBIZ LA — Thursday, January 15th. It won’t be one to miss. We’ll see you there!
We’re proud to share that Alison Boden, Valentine, and Mike Stabile have been nominated for the 2026 XBIZ Exec Awards!
Nominees are selected for leadership, impact, and community influence. Voting is now open at XBIZ.net
@alisonboden.bsky.social @mikestabile.bsky.social @cruelvalentine.bsky.social
Nominees are selected for leadership, impact, and community influence. Voting is now open at XBIZ.net
@alisonboden.bsky.social @mikestabile.bsky.social @cruelvalentine.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 11:36 PM
We’re proud to share that Alison Boden, Valentine, and Mike Stabile have been nominated for the 2026 XBIZ Exec Awards!
Nominees are selected for leadership, impact, and community influence. Voting is now open at XBIZ.net
@alisonboden.bsky.social @mikestabile.bsky.social @cruelvalentine.bsky.social
Nominees are selected for leadership, impact, and community influence. Voting is now open at XBIZ.net
@alisonboden.bsky.social @mikestabile.bsky.social @cruelvalentine.bsky.social
Nominations are now open for the 2025 FSC Board of Directors election! 🗳️
Members, check your email for nomination instructions. Nominees need two nominations from FSC members (self nominations welcome). Voting begins December 3.
tinyurl.com/FSCBoardElec...
Members, check your email for nomination instructions. Nominees need two nominations from FSC members (self nominations welcome). Voting begins December 3.
tinyurl.com/FSCBoardElec...
FSC Sets Key Dates, Qualifiers for December Board of Directors Election — Free Speech Coalition
The election process for the 2025 Free Speech Coalition Board of Directors election will begin on November 5, 2025. In order to participate in this election, either as a voter or a nominee, you must…
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November 5, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Nominations are now open for the 2025 FSC Board of Directors election! 🗳️
Members, check your email for nomination instructions. Nominees need two nominations from FSC members (self nominations welcome). Voting begins December 3.
tinyurl.com/FSCBoardElec...
Members, check your email for nomination instructions. Nominees need two nominations from FSC members (self nominations welcome). Voting begins December 3.
tinyurl.com/FSCBoardElec...
FSC has released an updated edition of the Age Verification Toolkit for adult websites, with new guidance on Missouri’s regulation taking effect Nov 30 and recently filed enforcement actions and lawsuits.
www.freespeechcoalition.com/blog/fsc-rel...
www.freespeechcoalition.com/blog/fsc-rel...
Age Verification Toolkit — Free Speech Coalition
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November 4, 2025 at 5:54 PM
FSC has released an updated edition of the Age Verification Toolkit for adult websites, with new guidance on Missouri’s regulation taking effect Nov 30 and recently filed enforcement actions and lawsuits.
www.freespeechcoalition.com/blog/fsc-rel...
www.freespeechcoalition.com/blog/fsc-rel...
“We have more in common with the rest of the world than we don’t.”
XBIZ profiles FSC Deputy Executive Director Valentine and their work expanding financial access and fighting stigma. @cruelvalentine.bsky.social
www.xbiz.com/features/293...
XBIZ profiles FSC Deputy Executive Director Valentine and their work expanding financial access and fighting stigma. @cruelvalentine.bsky.social
www.xbiz.com/features/293...
FSC's Valentine Leads Charge for Sex Worker Rights and Financial Access
Before ever stepping into a courtroom, Valentine already understood the power of presence. After all, they’ve shimmied on stages as a burlesque performer, consulted behind the scenes for creative…
www.xbiz.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:35 PM
“We have more in common with the rest of the world than we don’t.”
XBIZ profiles FSC Deputy Executive Director Valentine and their work expanding financial access and fighting stigma. @cruelvalentine.bsky.social
www.xbiz.com/features/293...
XBIZ profiles FSC Deputy Executive Director Valentine and their work expanding financial access and fighting stigma. @cruelvalentine.bsky.social
www.xbiz.com/features/293...
Tomorrow, FSC’s Industry Advocate Lotus Lain @itslotuslain.bsky.social will speak at the The People’s UPR 2025, spotlighting how U.S. anti-trafficking policy fuels exploitation instead of ending it.
Join the livestream from 12–4PM ET:
buff.ly/6EM2dTa
#UPR2025 #HumanRights #DecrimSexWork #UN
Join the livestream from 12–4PM ET:
buff.ly/6EM2dTa
#UPR2025 #HumanRights #DecrimSexWork #UN
The Peoples' UPR 2025
Get ready for The Peoples UPR! After registering below, you will receive a ticket for in-person attendance or Zoom link to view the webinar
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October 22, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Tomorrow, FSC’s Industry Advocate Lotus Lain @itslotuslain.bsky.social will speak at the The People’s UPR 2025, spotlighting how U.S. anti-trafficking policy fuels exploitation instead of ending it.
Join the livestream from 12–4PM ET:
buff.ly/6EM2dTa
#UPR2025 #HumanRights #DecrimSexWork #UN
Join the livestream from 12–4PM ET:
buff.ly/6EM2dTa
#UPR2025 #HumanRights #DecrimSexWork #UN
California’s new age-verification law, AB 1043, doesn’t apply to adult sites. It requires device makers and app stores to collect users’ ages and provide an API so apps—not websites—can restrict minors from “age-inappropriate” content. www.freespeechcoalition.com/blog/califor...
California's Device-Based Age-Verification Bill Does Not Apply to Adult Sites — Free Speech Coalition
California’s recently passed age-verification bill, AB 1043 , does not apply to adult websites. The bill requires device manufacturers and app stores to collect a user’s birthdate or age and provide…
www.freespeechcoalition.com
October 22, 2025 at 6:29 PM
California’s new age-verification law, AB 1043, doesn’t apply to adult sites. It requires device makers and app stores to collect users’ ages and provide an API so apps—not websites—can restrict minors from “age-inappropriate” content. www.freespeechcoalition.com/blog/califor...
AB 1043 does not apply to websites, meaning the technology is not currently available to adult sites who wish to block minors. While there is inherent privacy risk in all AV solutions, device-based solutions are more privacy preserving than the platform-based verification mandated in other states.
California just became the latest state to require device-level age verification. Under AB 1043, users must verify their age when setting up a phone or downloading apps, forcing Apple & Google to build age-check systems into devices.
avn.com/news/legal/c...
avn.com/news/legal/c...
California Governor Adopts Device-Level Age Verification Law AVN
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, signed into law Assembly Bill (AB) 1043 on Monday, implementing an age verification regime that requires users' ages to be verified at the device operating…
avn.com
October 15, 2025 at 10:37 PM
AB 1043 does not apply to websites, meaning the technology is not currently available to adult sites who wish to block minors. While there is inherent privacy risk in all AV solutions, device-based solutions are more privacy preserving than the platform-based verification mandated in other states.
California just became the latest state to require device-level age verification. Under AB 1043, users must verify their age when setting up a phone or downloading apps, forcing Apple & Google to build age-check systems into devices.
avn.com/news/legal/c...
avn.com/news/legal/c...
California Governor Adopts Device-Level Age Verification Law AVN
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, signed into law Assembly Bill (AB) 1043 on Monday, implementing an age verification regime that requires users' ages to be verified at the device operating…
avn.com
October 14, 2025 at 10:19 PM
California just became the latest state to require device-level age verification. Under AB 1043, users must verify their age when setting up a phone or downloading apps, forcing Apple & Google to build age-check systems into devices.
avn.com/news/legal/c...
avn.com/news/legal/c...
Today FSC Executive Director Alison Boden is testifying before the Canadian Senate about age verification and online safety.
Watch it live: senparlvu.parl.gc.ca/Harmony/en/P...
Watch it live: senparlvu.parl.gc.ca/Harmony/en/P...
LCJC meeting no. 6
Standing Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs
senparlvu.parl.gc.ca
October 8, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Today FSC Executive Director Alison Boden is testifying before the Canadian Senate about age verification and online safety.
Watch it live: senparlvu.parl.gc.ca/Harmony/en/P...
Watch it live: senparlvu.parl.gc.ca/Harmony/en/P...
Age verification isn’t stopping at porn sites. It’s spreading to YouTube, TikTok, social media, app stores, and more. These laws turn the internet into an ID checkpoint. Join FSC in the fight! www.freespeechcoalition.com/join
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October 6, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Age verification isn’t stopping at porn sites. It’s spreading to YouTube, TikTok, social media, app stores, and more. These laws turn the internet into an ID checkpoint. Join FSC in the fight! www.freespeechcoalition.com/join
“Anonymity was foundational to American liberty — used to persuade the masses and criticize the powerful. Despite its tradeoffs, it’s a right worth fiercely defending.” www.theverge.com/policy/78125...
The right to anonymity is powerful, and America is destroying it
Age verification was already risky — now it’s downright dangerous.
www.theverge.com
October 1, 2025 at 8:34 PM
“Anonymity was foundational to American liberty — used to persuade the masses and criticize the powerful. Despite its tradeoffs, it’s a right worth fiercely defending.” www.theverge.com/policy/78125...
A Michigan lawmaker just introduced a bill to criminalize all adult content online.
It likely won’t move, but it shows the roadmap policing and prosecuting any mention of sex or gender identity online.
The fight for freedom starts with us.
mashable.com/article/mich...
It likely won’t move, but it shows the roadmap policing and prosecuting any mention of sex or gender identity online.
The fight for freedom starts with us.
mashable.com/article/mich...
Michigan bill seeks to ban porn, erotic ASMR, and more
Michigan Republican representatives introduce the Anticorruption of Public Morals Act, which would ban adult content and more.
mashable.com
September 26, 2025 at 9:51 PM
A Michigan lawmaker just introduced a bill to criminalize all adult content online.
It likely won’t move, but it shows the roadmap policing and prosecuting any mention of sex or gender identity online.
The fight for freedom starts with us.
mashable.com/article/mich...
It likely won’t move, but it shows the roadmap policing and prosecuting any mention of sex or gender identity online.
The fight for freedom starts with us.
mashable.com/article/mich...
Age-verification laws in Arizona and Ohio will go into effect on September 26 and September 30, respectively. www.freespeechcoalition.com/blog/age-ver...
Age-Verification Laws to Take Effect in Arizona and Ohio — Free Speech Coalition
Age-verification laws in Arizona and Ohio will go into effect on September 26 and September 30, respectively. Sites accessible in those states should take efforts to comply with these laws in order…
www.freespeechcoalition.com
September 24, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Age-verification laws in Arizona and Ohio will go into effect on September 26 and September 30, respectively. www.freespeechcoalition.com/blog/age-ver...
The Missouri Attorney General announced that the state's age-verification regulations will go into effect on November 30.
avn.com/news/legal/n...
avn.com/news/legal/n...
New Missouri AG Sets Official Date for AV Rule AVN
Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway, a Republican, announced on Thursday that she has determined the official date for an age verification rulemaking action to enter force.
avn.com
September 12, 2025 at 3:29 PM
The Missouri Attorney General announced that the state's age-verification regulations will go into effect on November 30.
avn.com/news/legal/n...
avn.com/news/legal/n...
Creating sexually explicit media by force, fraud or coercion isn't "porn" — it's a crime.
In an attempt to evade accountability, Michael Pratt tried to minimize that difference. No one bought it.
www.404media.co/michael-prat...
In an attempt to evade accountability, Michael Pratt tried to minimize that difference. No one bought it.
www.404media.co/michael-prat...
Michael Pratt, GirlsDoPorn Ringleader, Sentenced to 27 Years in Prison
Michael James Pratt was sentenced to federal prison on charges of sex trafficking connected to the GirlsDoPorn crime ring. “He turned my pain into profit, my life into currency,” said one victim.
www.404media.co
September 8, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Creating sexually explicit media by force, fraud or coercion isn't "porn" — it's a crime.
In an attempt to evade accountability, Michael Pratt tried to minimize that difference. No one bought it.
www.404media.co/michael-prat...
In an attempt to evade accountability, Michael Pratt tried to minimize that difference. No one bought it.
www.404media.co/michael-prat...
Join financial consultant @TheBillyGuan.bsky.social and industry veteran @EveBatelle.bsky.social on Tuesday, September 16 at 11am PT for a candid conversation on smart investing, taxes, and the four biggest threats to your financial future in adult work. Register here: tinyurl.com/35depb8m
September 8, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Join financial consultant @TheBillyGuan.bsky.social and industry veteran @EveBatelle.bsky.social on Tuesday, September 16 at 11am PT for a candid conversation on smart investing, taxes, and the four biggest threats to your financial future in adult work. Register here: tinyurl.com/35depb8m
FSC is proud to announce the appointment of Megan Stokes to our Board of Directors. 🌟
A longtime industry leader and advocate, Stokes brings 20+ years of experience in business development, licensing & creator-first practices.
www.freespeechcoalition.com/blog/fsc-app...
A longtime industry leader and advocate, Stokes brings 20+ years of experience in business development, licensing & creator-first practices.
www.freespeechcoalition.com/blog/fsc-app...
Free Speech Coalition Appoints Megan Stokes to Board of Directors — Free Speech Coalition
Industry veteran Megan Stokes appointed to the Free Speech Coalition Board of Directors.
www.freespeechcoalition.com
August 27, 2025 at 4:39 PM
FSC is proud to announce the appointment of Megan Stokes to our Board of Directors. 🌟
A longtime industry leader and advocate, Stokes brings 20+ years of experience in business development, licensing & creator-first practices.
www.freespeechcoalition.com/blog/fsc-app...
A longtime industry leader and advocate, Stokes brings 20+ years of experience in business development, licensing & creator-first practices.
www.freespeechcoalition.com/blog/fsc-app...
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We’re thrilled to partner with the @fsc.bsky.social FSC has long been a champion of free expression and a fierce defender of our rights. We’ll gather to have real conversations about suppression, resistance, and how we push back, both on screen and off.
#RESTRICTfilmfest #fsc #FreeSpeechCoalition
#RESTRICTfilmfest #fsc #FreeSpeechCoalition
August 20, 2025 at 12:26 PM
We’re thrilled to partner with the @fsc.bsky.social FSC has long been a champion of free expression and a fierce defender of our rights. We’ll gather to have real conversations about suppression, resistance, and how we push back, both on screen and off.
#RESTRICTfilmfest #fsc #FreeSpeechCoalition
#RESTRICTfilmfest #fsc #FreeSpeechCoalition
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The FSC just dropped a game-changing guide to help those with adult websites stay compliant with US age verification laws!
All members can get immediate access to this @fsc.bsky.social toolkit! 👇
All members can get immediate access to this @fsc.bsky.social toolkit! 👇
Half of U.S. states now require adult sites to implement age verification — with laws that are confusing, inconsistent, and often impossible to follow.
Today we launched a toolkit to help the industry navigate this patchwork of mandates.
🔗 freespeechcoalition.com/toolkit
Today we launched a toolkit to help the industry navigate this patchwork of mandates.
🔗 freespeechcoalition.com/toolkit
August 20, 2025 at 6:15 PM
The FSC just dropped a game-changing guide to help those with adult websites stay compliant with US age verification laws!
All members can get immediate access to this @fsc.bsky.social toolkit! 👇
All members can get immediate access to this @fsc.bsky.social toolkit! 👇
Missouri’s proposed age verification rule will not take effect on August 30. The final rules were not published in time, so there’s no enforcement yet. The timeline remains unclear, and FSC will continue tracking the process closely. buff.ly/nNmh5eN
Missouri Age Verification Rule Will Not Take Effect August 30th — Free Speech Coalition
Missouri’s proposed age verification rule will not go into effect August 30.
www.freespeechcoalition.com
August 20, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Missouri’s proposed age verification rule will not take effect on August 30. The final rules were not published in time, so there’s no enforcement yet. The timeline remains unclear, and FSC will continue tracking the process closely. buff.ly/nNmh5eN
Half of U.S. states now require adult sites to implement age verification — with laws that are confusing, inconsistent, and often impossible to follow.
Today we launched a toolkit to help the industry navigate this patchwork of mandates.
🔗 freespeechcoalition.com/toolkit
Today we launched a toolkit to help the industry navigate this patchwork of mandates.
🔗 freespeechcoalition.com/toolkit
August 18, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Half of U.S. states now require adult sites to implement age verification — with laws that are confusing, inconsistent, and often impossible to follow.
Today we launched a toolkit to help the industry navigate this patchwork of mandates.
🔗 freespeechcoalition.com/toolkit
Today we launched a toolkit to help the industry navigate this patchwork of mandates.
🔗 freespeechcoalition.com/toolkit
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I was clearly a bit overly optimistic last week when I thought I'd be able to publish the Age Verification Compliance toolkit I've been writing by today, but it's going through final legal review and will be out next week.
Sign up to get your copy when it drops!
www.freespeechcoalition.com/toolkit
Sign up to get your copy when it drops!
www.freespeechcoalition.com/toolkit
Age Verification Toolkit — Free Speech Coalition
www.freespeechcoalition.com
August 15, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I was clearly a bit overly optimistic last week when I thought I'd be able to publish the Age Verification Compliance toolkit I've been writing by today, but it's going through final legal review and will be out next week.
Sign up to get your copy when it drops!
www.freespeechcoalition.com/toolkit
Sign up to get your copy when it drops!
www.freespeechcoalition.com/toolkit
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Coming Soon: Compliance with US Age Verification Laws — the state-by-state guide for adult sites.
Clear breakdowns, practical guidance, and easy reference charts all in one place.
📩 Join the waitlist for a free preview: www.freespeechcoalition.com/toolkit
Clear breakdowns, practical guidance, and easy reference charts all in one place.
📩 Join the waitlist for a free preview: www.freespeechcoalition.com/toolkit
August 5, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Coming Soon: Compliance with US Age Verification Laws — the state-by-state guide for adult sites.
Clear breakdowns, practical guidance, and easy reference charts all in one place.
📩 Join the waitlist for a free preview: www.freespeechcoalition.com/toolkit
Clear breakdowns, practical guidance, and easy reference charts all in one place.
📩 Join the waitlist for a free preview: www.freespeechcoalition.com/toolkit
FSC’s Montana case has been dismissed for lack of standing. When we first brought the case, state law allowed the Attorney General to enforce it, giving us legal standing to sue. After we filed suit, the legislature passed a new bill removing the AG from enforcement to block the litigation.
Montana’s Online Age Verification Law Survives Free Speech Suit
A coalition of educators, writers, and sex-related businesses lost their challenge to Montana’s age verification law for websites that “knowingly and intentionally” distribute “material harmful to min...
news.bloomberglaw.com
August 8, 2025 at 9:46 PM
FSC’s Montana case has been dismissed for lack of standing. When we first brought the case, state law allowed the Attorney General to enforce it, giving us legal standing to sue. After we filed suit, the legislature passed a new bill removing the AG from enforcement to block the litigation.