Political Attacks

A proposal that popped up Thursday in the state Senate would allow parents to sue website providers if their minor children access pornography online.

It can always get dumber. And when we’re talking about the 5th Circuit, you have to assume it will always get dumber. And that’s what has happened now with the 5th Circuit issuing a stay on an inju…

When the United Kingdon government announced Tuesday that the latest iteration of its “Online Safety Bill” had “passed its final Parliamentary debate and is now ready to become law,” nowhere in the announcement did the word “encryption” or the phrase “end-to-end” encryption appear. It’s not…

A federal judge on Monday blocked California from enforcing a law meant to protect children when they use the internet, saying the law’s commercial speech restrictions likely violate the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment.

The law aims to force firms to remove illegal content and protect children from some legal but harmful material.

An Illinois state senator has introduced the “Adult Content Age Verification Act,” a bill similar to those recently passed in other states.

Ask most people what they remember about the 1997 film “Boogie Nights,” and they’ll probably mention Heather Graham dancing around as Rollergirl, or the infamous pool party, or Mark Wahlberg finally — spoiler alert — unveiling his prosthetic penis.

The far-right administration of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has reportedly pulled back from anti-porn language that had been inserted into a controversial “youth crime” executive order, which was fast-tracked after the media sensationalized specific incidents of sexual assaults.

This blog post was co-written by Dr. Monica Horten, and is also available on the Open Rights Group website.Under new age verification rules in the UK’s massive Online Safety Bill, all internet platforms with UK users will have to stop minors from accessing ‘harmful’ content, as defined by the UK…

Paxton, accused of bribery, unfitness for office and years of abuse of public trust, will have his fate decided by fellow Republicans in the state Senate.