The War on Porn

Between Louisiana’s new age verification law and the Twitter ban of Pineapple Support, the New Year is off to a rocky start for the adult biz.

Websites containing 33.3% or more of pornographic content are responsible for checking users’ age. Presumably residents could get around that by using a VPN, though.

Twitter “permanently suspended” the Pineapple Support account over the weekend, founder Leya Tanit reported through her personal account.

Texas’ Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton filed an amicus brief yesterday urging the U.S. Supreme Court to radically narrow the scope of Section 230 protection for websites.

YNOT’s Ben Suroeste thinks Sen. Mike Lee’s latest bills don’t go far enough in outlawing potentially enjoyable activities.

The Criminal Court has denied bail to a wealthy computer programmer and his actress wife who allegedly operated a major gambling website and a pornographic site.

The Russian government has granted its media regulator the authority to block websites containing “LGBT propaganda” without a court order, according to a decree published on Monday. “Information propagating non-traditional sexual relations and (or) preferences” now serves as grounds for blacklisting…

After backlash from artists whose work has been unknowingly used to train AI models, Kickstarter updated its policies.

Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) this week introduced the Interstate Obscenity Definition Act, a bill that nominally aims to “establish a national definition of obscenity” but which would, in effect, outlaw all online sexual content nationwide.

Wired Magazine published an online opinion piece today by Virgina Heffernan, who deployed a number of stigmatizing and stereotypical tropes about sex work and depictions of sex in order to advance her entirely conjectural notions about the future of adult content on Twitter.