SAN FRANCISCO —  A California appellate court recently ruled that Twitter — as a digital platform protected under the Section 230 third-party liability shield — has the right to ban users who violate their terms of service. While this ruling was reached at a state court, it...

WASHINGTON — The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is poised to repeal the Trump administration’s rules that essentially repealed net neutrality at the national level. Republicans, however, are relishing the opportunity to capitalize on the politics of entirely...

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...

In the ever-crowded world of cam models, standing out from the crowd is more difficult than ever. As a result, many cammers try to develop unique twists to their personas, in order to grab people’s attention and get them to watch (and pay for) their performances. Chaturbate...

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...