The War on Porn

We speak to three dancers whose jobs are under threat

The U.S. government can continue enforcing a law designed to curb online sales of unlawful acts with sex trafficking victims after a federal court in Washington found that it’s neither overly broad nor unduly vague.

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children issued this month its 2021 CyberTipline Report showing that child sexual abuse material is a problem across all kinds of online platforms.

German investigative journalists have obtained evidence from TikTok corroborating free speech advocates’ claims that some platforms are using “porn filters” to target other controversial content involving issues like politics, human rights and LGBTQ+ expression.

BOISE (AP) — Idaho Republican lawmakers are forming a working group to study allegations that Idaho libraries are making explicit materials available to minors. The Idaho Senate Republicans announced the plans for a working group over the weekend, the Idaho Press reported. The group will include eig…

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…

The newly opened Romantic Depot on Fulton Street is being classified as a retail store by the Department of Buildings.

Boris Johnson’s Conservative government in the U.K. has finally unveiled its controversial “Online Safety Bill,” and introduced it in Parliament today.

There’s an abundance of evidence that a 2018 law aimed at sex advertising has been bad for sex workers, bad...

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.