The War on Porn

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.”

The Montana House has endorsed a Republican bill aimed at restricting drag shows, which includes a legal redefinition of the term “prurient” as “having a tendency to excite lustful thoughts.”

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.