The War on Porn

Oral arguments in Gonzalez v. Google were heard before the U.S. Supreme Court on Feb. 21 in a bid to decide whether the safe harbor provisions of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 would either be retained as is or entirely reinterpreted. Section 230, often referred t…

Bills are part of religious right’s post-Roe strategy, with most prevalent ones relating to age verification of sex-related websites

Several publications within the right-wing media ecosystem amplified, during the last news cycle, the current Republican push for age verification on websites displaying adult content.

A Republican state senator in Arkansas who introduced a bill last month requiring age verification before “entering a website offering pornography” admitted that his state initiative is only a stepping stone toward the ultimate goal of a federal mandate.

Adult stars and sex workers say Instagram unfairly patrols their accounts while letting celebrities dodge the same rules.

Amidst a full blown media-fueled moral panic in the U.K. designed to sell the controversial Online Safety Bill to the public, influential journalist Jenni Murray published an extremist tirade in the Daily Mail last week advocating for all adult content to be made illegal and for the imprisonment its…

The Arkansas House endorsed Senate Bill 43 on Monday, after Republicans amended it to shift the focus from restricting “drag performance” to restricting all “adult-oriented performances” in the state.

“2023 is the end of access to pornographic sites for our children,” said Jean-Noël Barrot, the French Minister for Digital Affairs.

Right-wing news site Breitbart.com is attempting to derail the confirmation of Gigi Sohn, President Joe Biden’s nominee for a seat on the FCC, by attacking her activism against censorship of sexual content.

France’s Minister for Digital Affairs confirmed yesterday that a government-issued “digital certificate” certifying the person’s age will be necessary to view all adult content on line starting in September.