FSC Creates Action Modal for Adult Sites to Combat AV Laws

LOS ANGELES—The Free Speech Coalition (FSC) today announced the release of a free tool for adult website owners to tell their users to urge their local legislators to vote against proposed age verification bills. This tool is an action modal web script that can be added to the footer of any website. "When a user visits your website, the script checks to see whether they have already seen the pop-up (using a cookie)," reads the announcement on the FSC's blog. "If not, it checks whether they are in a state with a pending age verification bill. If they are, it displays a pop-up window asking them to oppose the bill." Any links clicked by the users will open in a new window or tab. Clicking off the pop-up will close it. And whether the user clicks the links on the pop-up, the cookie remains set, ensuring that users do not see the same pop-up message again. "Politicians' number one priority is reelection, so they care far more about what the voters in their district think than what the porn industry thinks," explains the blog. "We were able to defeat Arizona's law in 2024 by mobilizing constituents to pressure the governor into vetoing a bill that the legislature had passed." The code for the pop-up action modal is available on GitHub. According to this documentation for web developers, the states programmed with the modal include: Arizona, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming. The full blog post announcing the modal can be found here.