The War on Porn

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.

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…