Op-Ed: What Is Porn? The Distorted Notions in Utah and Beyond AVN
Pornhub geo-blocked the state of Utah after Gov. Spencer Cox, a Republican, signed a new age verification bill into law. Interestingly enough, the reaction from the outside world was quite comical. But from within Utah, people are pissed.
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Free Speech Coalition Sues Louisiana Over Age Verification Mandate
Free Speech Coalition Sues Louisiana Over Age Verification Mandate — Free Speech Coalition
Free Speech Coalition, the advocacy organization for the adult industry, has filed a legal challenge in Louisiana over the state’s unconstitutional age-verification law. The Louisiana law gives the state the power to fine sites with adult content up to $5,000 per day, a direct violation of the First
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British Baroness Defends Controversial California Age Verification Law She Inspired
British Baroness Defends Controversial California Age Verification Law She Inspired
The Baroness Beeban Kidron, a British aristocrat with California and Hollywood ties, was the subject of a fawning profile by Politico in which she continued to defend her controversial campaigns for internet age verification in the U.K. and California.
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Dorcel Testing Age Verification Solution in France
Dorcel Testing Age Verification Solution in France
Veteran French adult company Dorcel is currently testing a “double anonymity” age verification solution designed by a Marseille-based tech comapny.
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An Anti-Porn App Put Him in Jail and His Family Under Surveillance
An Anti-Porn App Put Him in Jail and His Family Under Surveillance
A court used an app called Covenant Eyes to surveil the family of a man released on bond. Now he’s back in jail, and tech misuse may be to blame.
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Utah lawmaker accuses school district of distributing porn to minors through books
Utah lawmaker accuses school district of distributing porn to minors through books
A state senator is accusing a Utah school district of possibly being an “accessory to the distribution of pornography to minors” over a book in its libraries.
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Ninth Circuit Refuses to Rehear Anti-Porn Lobby’s Lawsuit Against Twitter
Ninth Circuit Refuses to Rehear Anti-Porn Lobby’s Lawsuit Against Twitter
The Ninth Circuit delivered Friday another defeat to the NCOSE-sponsored lawsuit attempting to establish liability for Twitter over user-generated content, denying the plaintiffs a full rehearing.
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Illinois outlaws book bans in schools and public libraries
Illinois outlaws book bans in schools and public libraries | CNN
Illinois became the first state in the nation to prohibit book bans Monday, Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced, as states across the country continue to challenge and axe literature from public schools and libraries.
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Texas Prosecutor Accused of Abuse of Power for Netflix Censorship Attempt
Texas Prosecutor Accused of Abuse of Power for Netflix Censorship Attempt
A coalition of broadcasters, journalists and publishers this week told a Fifth Circuit appeals panel that Tyler County District Attorney Lucas Babin acted in bad faith and abused his powers by manipulating a Texas grand jury into indicting Netflix for promoting the award-winning film “Cuties.”
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Utah district’s Bible ban spurs protest by parents, Republicans
Utah district’s Bible ban spurs protest by parents, Republicans
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Republican lawmakers rallied with more than one hundred Bible-toting parents and children at Utah’s Capitol on Wednesday to protest a school district’s decision to remove the Bible from middle and elementary school libraries in the wake of a GOP-backed “sensitive materials” law…
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