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Senators Blumenthal and Graham

If Sites are Liable for Actions of 3rd Parties, are Senators, Too?

Many Senators, including Lindsey Graham and Richard Blumenthal, seem to think interactive online platforms should be held liable for the speech and actions of third party users who use their sites. Would the Senators approve of applying the same reasoning in their direction?
Posted On 08 Jul 2020
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Happy Independence Day

Happy Independence Day! Now Shut Up

If there’s one thing on which Republicans and Democrats can agree, it’s that free speech is a great and noble thing – as long as they like what someone has to say and it’s not something negative about them. When properly viewed within this context, many things which might...
Posted On 03 Jul 2020
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Warning label

Let’s Have Government-Mandated Warning Labels for Everything!

At first, Ben Suroeste thought Utah's idea of having government-mandated warning labels on porn was a bad idea. Upon further reflection, he's realized we don't just need warnings on porn -- we need them on everything potentially harmful, just in case.
Posted On 14 Feb 2020
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WTF

The WTF Decade: A Retrospective

Ben Suroeste takes a look back at the best, meanest, least true and most unfair YNOT WTF! stories of the last decade -- a decade filled with secrets revealed, press releases mangled, awards granted, trade shows held in questionable locales and plenty of other "facts" bound to...
Posted On 01 Jan 2020
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Age Verification in the UK

Oh Good: The UK Has “Comprehensive” Online Protection in Mind

Last week, I read that the UK’s idea to make porn sites adopt age verification was dead. As it turns out though, it seems to be merely mostly dead, to borrow a line from The Princess Bride. So, what’s the deal, you ask? According to Matt Warman, who holds the job of...
Posted On 21 Oct 2019
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Bath water for sale

On Second Thought, Don’t Throw Out the Bathwater, Either

As the term implies, social media "influencers" have a major impact on their followers and can persuade their fans into buying all sorts of products and services. Often times, those items are beauty products, fashion or lifestyle-enhancing goods. Other times, evidently, it's......
Posted On 05 Jul 2019
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Flag of Arizona

AZ Legislature Officially Declares Porn a Very Bad Thing

Arizona has become the latest state to pass a nonbinding resolution declaring porn to be responsible for virtually every societal ill that isn't caused by video games. YNOT's Ben Suroeste takes a deep dive into this shallow end of legislative intellect.
Posted On 08 May 2019
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Red carpet

Entire Adult Industry Nominated for Award, Signing at Some Booth

According to quasi-journalist Ben Suroeste, the entire adult industry has been nominated for at least one award and will be signing at "some booth" at an industry trade event in Las Vegas this week. The massive influx of related press releases has confused and disoriented the...
Posted On 24 Jan 2019
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Cave painting

UCLA’s “Comparitive Pornographies” – I Can’t Fap to That!

UCLA will soon host a conference on "comparative pornographies" centered on the differences between Asian and European porn. But when YNOT's Ben Suroeste looked more closely at the conference's description, he discovered there may be less to this "porn" than meets the genitals.
Posted On 16 Jan 2019
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If Alex Jones Gets His PayPal Account Back, I Want Mine Back Too

Alex Jones has filed a lawsuit against PayPal asserting that the company illegally banned him from using its services. Ben Suroeste isn't sure whether the lawsuit has any merit -- but he is sure that if Jones gets his account reinstated, internet pornographers should be allowed...
Posted On 03 Oct 2018
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