Political Attacks

In a letter to North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper, Free Speech Coalition Executive Director Alison Boden has called on the Governor to veto House Bill 8, which mandates age-verification for North Carolina residents accessing adult websites. The bill passed on September 21 and is currently awaiting t

A justice on the Ontario Superior Court this week dismissed a challenge to a controversial law governing sex work in Canada.

A Texas law requiring websites to verify visitors’ ages before providing them with adult content violates the First Amendment and should be blocked, free-speech advocates told a federal appeals court.

A coalition of civil society groups expressed opposition to a bill that they claim is similar to the EARN IT Act.

As Anna Gomez ascends to the fifth seat on the FCC, the federal regulator is poised to finally reinstate net neutrality.

A sensationalistic report released this week by a French government office is urging immediate state censorship and broad criminalization of the adult industry in France and worldwide.

A recently passed bill that would require CSAM reporting for virtually all web platforms that operate in California is being called a "mini" version of FOSTA.

A religious conservative group that is currently lobbying for the North Carolina age verification legislation that was snuck into an unrelated bill last week by a Republican state senator has admitted the copycat amendment is in fact “an anti-pornography provision.”

An ACLU-led coalition of civil rights groups and groups representing LGBTQ+ individuals, sex workers, journalists and libraries issued an open letter to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer warning against the Strengthening Transparency and Obligations to Protect Children Suffering from Abuse and Mi…

Efforts by the right to ban books are often paired with efforts to restrict kids’ access to social media.