The War on Porn

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…

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.

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.”

The bill seeks to prohibit students from accessing porn on their phones or computers while connected to a university’s wifi or internet service.

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.

Germany’s Commission for Youth Media Protection decided unanimously on Thursday to impose a network ban on xHamster.

A proposed class of plaintiffs currently appealing a dismissed lawsuit against Reddit, alleging that the platform “knowingly benefits from lax enforcement of its content polices, including for child pornography,” filed an opening appellate brief this week renewing their claim that Section 230 protec…

The bill would have changed the review process if someone felt there was porn on school property.

Mashable recently discussed British-US comedian and political commentator John Oliver’s latest Last Week Tonight monologue in their piece “John Oliver takes an eye-opening deep dive into decriminalising sex work” (February 28, 2022). Per Mashable, the sentiment “at every turn we are making life hard…

Louis Theroux heads to Los Angeles as the world of adult entertainment grapples with its own wave of #MeToo.