The War on Porn

XBIZ News Editor Gustavo Turner spoke yesterday about the “War on Porn” as part of professor Constance Penley’s film and media studies class on pornography at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Westminster College in Salt Lake City is offering a course on pornography in which students will ‘watch pornographic films together.’

Personal injury powerhouse, Diamond and Diamond, has filed a class-action lawsuit against MindGeek, the parent company of pornography website PornHub. The suit is led by Plaintiff Christine Wing, an Ontario resident, who claims that the website failed to properly screen sexual content uploaded to th…

Sex, money, and the future of online free speech

A bill introduced in Louisiana would enable residents of the state to sue adult sites for failing to offer age verification measures.

The Washington Post published a lengthy report today highlighting the hypocrisy of algorithmic censorship, which has forced sex workers and others to develop “Algospeak,” nonsensical euphemisms to refer to banned words and concepts.

The local official crusading for Germany to hide all sexual content behind an age verification wall unveiled this week an AI tool called KIVI, which automatically scans all online content to determine which images are not compliant with the law.

The agreement restores rules police formerly used when they brought charges against dancers and requires deleting dancer photos in a police database.

The European country passed a law requiring age verification before watching porn. It’s merely the first step toward kicking sex workers off the internet and banning porn entirely.

In a unique initiative aimed at preventing sexual assault against minors, the Valsad police have launced ‘digital combing’ drive to trace people shari