Religious Attacks

Bloomberg published a report today about how adult performers and content creators have become “collateral damage” in the campaign to create liability for online platforms over user generated content.

The general counsel for anti-porn lobby NCOSE (formerly Morality in Media) admitted to NBC news that the organization is behind the state-by-state campaign to force all electronics manufacturers to install and activate “porn filters” on their devices.

The debate over whether something is obscene is messy and increasingly political in nature.

West Jakarta police arrested and publicly shamed two young Indonesian women for nude camming earlier this week, charging them with “pornography.”

Six months after suspending two religious “porn surveillance” apps following a Wired magazine report exposing them as spyware, Google Play has quietly reinstated Covenant Eyes and Accountable2You on March 1st.

A top executive for NCOSE, the religiously inspired anti-porn lobby formerly known as Morality in Media, admitted this week that members of the organization have “met regularly” with Meta executives responsible for Instagram moderation.

Online porn is a minefield.

Bills are part of religious right’s post-Roe strategy, with most prevalent ones relating to age verification of sex-related websites

Free Speech Coalition (FSC) has released an online guide tracking new anti-porn age verification laws and bills in multiple states, in a wave of what the trade organization has called “the most aggressive censorship we’ve seen in decades.”

Some members of the antiabortion movement are pushing for a comeback for the Comstock Act, an archaic law passed in 1873 mainly to target what Anthony Comstock, an anti-vice crusader, viewed as dirty books. Mary Ziegler argues that this new tactic poses a threat to abortion rights even -- or perhaps…