German Regulator Who Shut Down xHamster Describes Own Mission as ‘Kafkaesque’
Tobias Schmid, the obscure local bureaucrat who spearheads Germany’s War on Porn and recently led a successful movement to force ISPs to ban xHamster in the country, gave an interview last week in which he admitted he has “no clear answer” on how to make age verification effective and acknowledged h…
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Brooklyn Adult Boutique Challenged by Local Moralists
Clinton Hill residents claim new adult shop inappropriate for community
The newly opened Romantic Depot on Fulton Street is being classified as a retail store by the Department of Buildings.
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UK Government Unveils Controversial ‘Digital Safety Bill’
UK Government Unveils Controversial ‘Digital Safety Bill’
Boris Johnson’s Conservative government in the U.K. has finally unveiled its controversial “Online Safety Bill,” and introduced it in Parliament today.
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Texas Republicans Fudge Distinction Between ‘Obscenity,’ ‘Pornography’
The Sex-Ad Law FOSTA Was a Mistake. Some Lawmakers Want to Fix It.
There’s an abundance of evidence that a 2018 law aimed at sex advertising has been bad for sex workers, bad...
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Democrats Introduce ‘SAFE SEX Workers Study Act’ to Review FOSTA-SESTA Effects
Democrats Introduce ‘SAFE SEX Workers Study Act’ to Review FOSTA-SESTA Effects
Last week, several Democratic members of Congress sponsored legislation, both in the Senate and the House, aimed at investigating the effectiveness of FOSTA-SESTA in its purported mission of fighting human trafficking.
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UK’s Online Safety Bill Criticized Over Expanding Scope
UK expands Online Safety Bill to cover scam ads
The UK government has again announced an extension to the scope of the draft Online Safety Bill — this time bringing scam ads into scope following pressure from campaigners. In parallel, it has also launched a consultation on strengthening existing regulation of the online ad industry, laying out a…
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French Government Asks Courts for Order to Block Pornhub, 4 Other Tube Sites
French Government Asks Courts for Order to Block Pornhub, 4 Other Tube Sites
France’s media regulator ARCOM has gone to court to demand that the country’s ISPs enforce a total block of five specific adult tube sites — Pornhub, Tukif, xHamster, Xvideos and Xnxx — over their alleged lack of enforcement of a controversial age verification mandate.
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Supreme Court Declines to Hear Section 230 Case Against Facebook
Supreme Court Declines to Hear Section 230 Case Against Facebook
The Supreme Court declined today to settle a question presented by a Jane Doe looking to establish Facebook’s liability in a case where she alleges that she was “sex trafficked as a minor” because the social media platform “connected her with a sex trafficker.”
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Louisiana legislator proposes law to block porn on college campuses
Louisiana legislator proposes law to block porn on college campuses
The bill seeks to prohibit students from accessing porn on their phones or computers while connected to a university’s wifi or internet service.
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FSC Succeeds in Taking Down Long Posted Talent Doxxing Info
FSC Succeeds in Taking Down Long Posted Talent Doxxing Info AVN
The Free Speech Coalition announced today that it has successfully gotten a website that long displayed the legal names, addresses, birthdates and other private information of over 1,000 adult performers to remove all such information.
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