The War on Porn

Online porn is a minefield.

A partisan bill introduced by North Dakota Republican state senators would redefine “obscene material and performance” and “explicit sexual material” in extremely broad terms that would result in creating criminal liability for almost all instances of nudity and references to sex outside of adult ve…

“I’ve been called a groomer,” one North Dakota librarian said on this episode of Plain Talk. “I’ve been accused of wanting to teach teenagers about sex education with pornography.”

The parties in Gonzalez v. Google, a Supreme Court case, made their oral arguments on Feb. 21. At question is the safe-harbor liability immunization web

Republicans across the nation continue their ongoing campaign to legally redefine the concept of “prurient” — and other terms like “obscenity,” “pornography” and “harmful to minors” — through diverse pieces of state legislation concerning varied topics such as online age verification, the purchase o…

The U.K.’s All-Party Parliamentary Group on Commercial Sexual Exploitation (APPG-CSE) today released a report repeating myths and stereotypes peddled by anti-porn activists and recommending a wide-ranging state crackdown on sexual expression online.

A growing and tangled “sex bureaucracy” of government regulations and new laws is taking aim at the adult entertainment industry.

In ‘Gonzalez v. Google’ and ‘Twitter v. Taamneh,’ the Supreme Court is considering questions that could break the internet as we know it.

French MPs want to expand age verification requirements to mainstream social platforms.

The Tennessee legislature today passed a bill expanding the state’s definition of “obscenity and pornography” to criminalize anyone who “engages in an adult cabaret performance on public property or in a location where the adult cabaret performance could be viewed by a person who is not an adult.”