WASHINGTON — Jack Dorsey, the chief executive officer of Twitter, Inc., told a group of investors that he views that potentially stricter rules for Section 230 could be harmful to the survival of the open-internet and digital-first industries. “Content moderation is a practice...

SALT LAKE CITY — Where were you when porn was declared a public health crisis by the state of Utah? I was driving through the city of St. George, with my spouse, on our way to Las Vegas to visit her parents and family. We were stuck listening to conservative talk radio. Nothing...

WASHINGTON — Even during an ongoing public health crisis, Congress remains preoccupied with reforming Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Sens. Mark Warner (D-VA), Mazie Hirono (D-HI), and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) recently proposed a sweeping fix to the benchmark 1996 law...

TAMPA, Fla. – Before I get into the substance of this post, let me just explain why I feel compelled to refer to a certain upcoming major American professional sports event as the “Big Game,” rather than the name by which everyone in the fucking world knows the annual spectacle....

This year’s Sundance Film Festival looked a little different this year. Rather than gathering the film industry’s elite in Utah, the festival has gone online, allowing more people than ever to get in on the hottest new cinema of the year. That gave Pleasure, a film about a young...

Mainstream media doesn’t exactly have a strong track record when it comes to responsibly handling the lives and careers of sex workers. That’s one reason why, when Sarah Jones, a Tony Award–winning creator of the 2016 off-Broadway one-woman show Sell/Buy/Date announced that she...

The 117th Congress of the United States of America was sworn in on Sunday, January 3, 2021, pending a few disputed results and the winners of Georgia’s runoff Senate  elections. Along with unprecedented gender and racial diversity, the 117th congress also brings a sigh of relief...

Pro tip for Congress-watchers: If you spend your time trying to make sense of every fool thing Congress proposes, considers, debates or collectively pontificates about, you will eventually lose your goddamn mind. I know this because, believe it or not, there was a time when I...

There is a great deal of concern among members of the adult industry right now about a War on Porn. The “good news,” such as it is, is the above sentence is something I could have written at any point in my 23 years in the adult industry and it would have been just as true as it...

About five years ago adult models were a scattered group. Many stuck to just one monetization platform, and there was very little social interaction between performers outside of their own close groups of friends. Isolated models were missing the obvious benefits that come from...