The War on Porn

Some interesting notes on TikTok’s current active user count.

The new Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Louisiana Republican Mike Johnson — elected Wednesday by his GOP colleagues after a weeks-long stalemate — vowed last year to promote anti-sex education, anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-porn legislation if he ever had the authority.

A lawsuit brought by California and more than 30 state attorneys general against Meta Platforms Inc. for allegedly enticing children onto Instagram and Facebook with addictive features will likely accelerate an already roiling national debate over how internet companies should limit access by minors…

A bill years in the making.

Meta is taking on 42 states in what will likely lead to a multidistrict jurisdictional settlement.

“Introducing criminal penalties for failing to verify a user’s age is a significant First Amendment violation… And, of course, this law would impact all people – not just minors.”

It’s pretty much the way of the world: beyond the basic enshittification story that has been so well told over the past year or so about how companies get worse and worse as they get more and more …

The Woodhull Freedom Foundation will be presenting three upcoming online events.

A lengthy brief filed in a federal appeals court in Texas supporting the state’s new controversial age verification and mandatory labeling law was authored by an extreme-right Virginia attorney with Trump links on behalf of an obscure organization led by a Colorado-based religious conservative activ…

The journalists behind the so-called "Pornhub Tapes" series of investigative videos have been threatened with legal action by counsel retained by Pornhub's parent company, Aylo (formerly MindGeek).