The War on Porn

Bloomberg published a report today about how adult performers and content creators have become “collateral damage” in the campaign to create liability for online platforms over user generated content.

The general counsel for anti-porn lobby NCOSE (formerly Morality in Media) admitted to NBC news that the organization is behind the state-by-state campaign to force all electronics manufacturers to install and activate “porn filters” on their devices.

The EOKM, a Dutch organization whose name translates to “Online Child Abuse Expertise Office”, has filed suit against xHamster in Amsterdam.

The mainstream discussion of pornography seems to have two opposing hermeneutics.

The debate over whether something is obscene is messy and increasingly political in nature.

Arkansas’ SB 66, a Republican bill that would require age verification before “entering a website offering pornography,” cleared the state House last week.

SpankPay, an online crypto payment service targeted at the adult industry, informed its customers and supporters today that it’s permanently shutting down services due to a hostile banking environment. The company ran into troubles with service provider Wyre after that company switched payment proce…

West Jakarta police arrested and publicly shamed two young Indonesian women for nude camming earlier this week, charging them with “pornography.”

Recently, Erica Smith – a sex educator and creator of the purity culture dropout program, an online class which seeks to help those struggling with shame about sex, guest lectured at a university sharing the scoop on porn and religion. Her teachings most likely won’t be shocking to you but to a cult…

Six months after suspending two religious “porn surveillance” apps following a Wired magazine report exposing them as spyware, Google Play has quietly reinstated Covenant Eyes and Accountable2You on March 1st.