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The attorney general of Texas has filed lawsuits against two companies that operate pornographic platforms.
On Friday, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican, released a statement, announcing his office had filed lawsuits against Multi Media, LLC, and Hammy Media, the two companies that operate the pornography sites.
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Paxton argued in his legal complaints the two parent companies had violated H.B. 1181, a state law requiring age-verification measures to be put in place to block minors from accessing the sites.
The attorney general’s office filed the suits against Hammy Media and Multi Media, LLC, on Tuesday. In the filings, they asked the judge to issue an order finding the companies are actively violating state law and enjoining them from “online publication or distribution of sexual material harmful to minors without implementing reasonable age verification methods.”
Furthermore, the legal complaints seek to impose civil penalties of $10,000 per day for every day the companies continue to violate the state law protecting minors from illicit content. The total penalties against Multi Media, LLC, amounted to $1,780,000 and $1,670,000 for Hammy Media.
It’s worth noting that, according to MySA, xHamster blocked Texas users and
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