Murrill: No retreat on age verification for Pornhub

(The Center Square) – Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill is rejecting Pornhub’s call to reconsider the state’s age-verification law, saying her office intends to increase scrutiny of the company instead.

“Not only will we not reconsider age verification for Pornhub’s website, but we’re going to pursue even more accountability,” Murrill said in a statement.

She did not elaborate on what additional accountability could involve.

Pornhub appealed to Murrill, Gov. Jeff Landry and Rep. Laurie Schlegel, the law’s sponsor, in a letter arguing that Louisiana’s website-by-website approach has failed to keep minors away from pornography and instead steered users toward sites that ignore the law.

The company said searches conducted June 4 found that eight of the first 10 results for “free porn” on Google, Bing and DuckDuckGo led to websites without age verification — 24 of 30 results across the three search engines.

Pornhub did not identify the websites, provide the underlying search results or fully explain how it determined whether...