The War on Porn

Pope Francis I condemned on Thursday all pornography as “the crudest commercialization of love” during a meeting with students and bishops responsible for Catholic schools.

A bill signed by Montana Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte this week enacts far-reaching limits on the presence of children among drag performers, including by banning drag story hours at public schools and libraries.

Lawmakers in the Alabama state legislature have voted for a bill that would require parental controls and NSFW content filters to be enabled on every phone and tablet sold in the state. House Bill …

YouTube removed on Wednesday an episode of the “Holly Randall Unfiltered” industry podcast, an interview with Reason magazine journalist Elizabeth Nolan Brown debunking myths spread by anti-sex work activists, mainstream media and politicians about sex trafficking.

TikTok CEO Shou Chew vowed Tuesday that his company’s legal battle against Montana will succeed, after the state passed a law that would ban the app from personal devices starting in January.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama lawmakers advanced anti-pornography legislation Tuesday that would require phones and tablets to automatically block sexually explicit content or pornography until the purchaser changes the device settings.

A group of TikTok users has sued to overturn Montana’s new statewide ban blocking the app, alleging that the law signed this week by Gov. Greg Gianforte violates the First Amendment.

The western state last week became the first in the US to ban the hugely-popular video platform.

(RNS) — Younger Americans aspire to build a world marked by love and justice. But they don’t see much of that in church.

In a win for technology platforms and the online adult entertainment industry, the U.S. Supreme Court chose not to touch Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 and the safe-harbor provision that immunize web platforms from the potentially illegal actions of third-party us…