Twitter ‘Permanently Suspends’ Pineapple Support Account
Twitter “permanently suspended” the Pineapple Support account over the weekend, founder Leya Tanit reported through her personal account.
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Texas Attorney General Files Brief to Narrow Section 230 Protections
Texas Attorney General Files Brief to Narrow Section 230 Protections
Texas’ Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton filed an amicus brief yesterday urging the U.S. Supreme Court to radically narrow the scope of Section 230 protection for websites.
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Let’s Cut to the Chase, Senator Lee: Sponsor the NO FUN Act
Let’s Cut to the Chase, Senator Lee: Sponsor the NO FUN Act
YNOT’s Ben Suroeste thinks Sen. Mike Lee’s latest bills don’t go far enough in outlawing potentially enjoyable activities.
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Thai Authorities Charge Soap Opera Actress With Operating Porn Site
Accused masterminds of illegal websites refused bail
The Criminal Court has denied bail to a wealthy computer programmer and his actress wife who allegedly operated a major gambling website and a pornographic site.
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Russia’s Media Regulator Granted Powers to Block all LGBT Sites
Russia’s Media Regulator Granted Powers to Block all LGBT Sites - The Moscow Times
The Russian government has granted its media regulator the authority to block websites containing “LGBT propaganda” without a court order, according to a decree published on Monday. “Information propagating non-traditional sexual relations and (or) preferences” now serves as grounds for blacklisting…
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Kickstarter shut down the campaign for AI porn group Unstable Diffusion amid changing guidelines
Kickstarter shut down the campaign for AI porn group Unstable Diffusion amid changing guidelines
After backlash from artists whose work has been unknowingly used to train AI models, Kickstarter updated its policies.
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Utah Republican Senator Mike Lee Introduces Bill to Outlaw All Porn Nationwide
Utah Republican Senator Mike Lee Introduces Bill to Outlaw All Porn Nationwide
Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) this week introduced the Interstate Obscenity Definition Act, a bill that nominally aims to “establish a national definition of obscenity” but which would, in effect, outlaw all online sexual content nationwide.
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Wired Publishes Opinion Piece Stigmatizing Adult Content, Sex Work
Wired Publishes Opinion Piece Stigmatizing Adult Content, Sex Work
Wired Magazine published an online opinion piece today by Virgina Heffernan, who deployed a number of stigmatizing and stereotypical tropes about sex work and depictions of sex in order to advance her entirely conjectural notions about the future of adult content on Twitter.
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J.D. Vance Is Coming for Your Porn–Watch Out
J.D. Vance Is Coming for Your Porn–Watch Out
The war on porn could get worse in 2023 thanks to Sen. J.D. Vance and others who are pushing for a porn ban. Their demands may lack legal grounding, but they pose a serious threat.
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ESPLERP: Mark Dec. 17, Intl. Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers
ESPLERP: Mark Dec. 17, Intl. Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers
ESPLERP is calling for supporters to join them in marking International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers, December 17.
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