The War on Porn

Veteran Spanish feminist academic and activist Amelia Valcárcel reaffirmed her alliance with the right-wing Partido Popular (PP) on Wednesday by issuing a demand for the adoption of 10 policy items led by the censorship of adult content and the abolition of all sex work.

Lawyers representing the state of Utah have filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by the Free Speech Coalition to deem a controversial age-verification law unconstitutional and a violation of the First Amendment.

Pornhub geo-blocked the state of Utah after Gov. Spencer Cox, a Republican, signed a new age verification bill into law. Interestingly enough, the reaction from the outside world was quite comical. But from within Utah, people are pissed.

Free Speech Coalition, the advocacy organization for the adult industry, has filed a legal challenge in Louisiana over the state’s unconstitutional age-verification law. The Louisiana law gives the state the power to fine sites with adult content up to $5,000 per day, a direct violation of the First

The Baroness Beeban Kidron, a British aristocrat with California and Hollywood ties, was the subject of a fawning profile by Politico in which she continued to defend her controversial campaigns for internet age verification in the U.K. and California.

Veteran French adult company Dorcel is currently testing a “double anonymity” age verification solution designed by a Marseille-based tech comapny.

A court used an app called Covenant Eyes to surveil the family of a man released on bond. Now he’s back in jail, and tech misuse may be to blame.

A state senator is accusing a Utah school district of possibly being an “accessory to the distribution of pornography to minors” over a book in its libraries.

The Ninth Circuit delivered Friday another defeat to the NCOSE-sponsored lawsuit attempting to establish liability for Twitter over user-generated content, denying the plaintiffs a full rehearing.

Illinois became the first state in the nation to prohibit book bans Monday, Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced, as states across the country continue to challenge and axe literature from public schools and libraries.