Religious Attacks

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…

‘Legal action is one more way that we can bring meaningful change to protect our children,’ Cox says

“Reasonable people everywhere recognize these books as obscene and reasonable people do not want their money used to subsidize obscenity...

Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) this week introduced the Interstate Obscenity Definition Act, a bill that nominally aims to “establish a national definition of obscenity” but which would, in effect, outlaw all online sexual content nationwide.

Lauren Drain is now known as “the world’s hottest nurse...