CANBERRA, Australia — The Australian government has released an official response to a parliamentary inquiry discussing the possibility of restricting access to online porn and online gambling for youth across the country. Parliament’s House of Representatives Standing...

WASHINGTON — Adult-oriented entertainment platforms should pay attention to a new bill introduced in Congress by members of the Democratic majority. The bill, the “Algorithmic Justice and Online Platform Transparency Act,” purportedly is intended “to prohibit...

WASHINGTON — Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives announced last Thursday that they have introduced a House version of the SAFE TECH Act as a companion bill to the controversial Senate version that was introduced by Sens. Mark Warner (D-VA), Mazie Hirono (D-HI), and Amy...

WASHINGTON — Congressional Democrats introduced the Online Consumer Protection Act (OCPA) earlier this month in another bid to take on Section 230 reform. Reps. Jan Schakowsky (D-Illinois) and Kathy Castor (D-Florida) are the primary sponsors for the Act, focusing on the...

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden announced Friday that he has revoked a Trump-era executive order that challenged the legal protections for social media sites and other interactive computer services and online platforms. Executive Order 13925, entitled “Preventing Online...

WASHINGTON — In the ongoing fight over big tech and Section 230 accountability, Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Missouri, is no stranger to arguing batshit crazy ideas about how the internet works. As the title of this post suggests, Sen. Hawley has been further presenting himself as a...

WASHINGTON — According to federal spending data, the Department of Justice (DOJ) under former President Donald Trump awarded nearly $240,000 in 2020 through a block grant to the controversial anti-porn group the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE). The grant, awarded...

WASHINGTON — Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tennessee, published an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal accusing big tech of being protected by Section 230 of the Communication Decency Act and using such protections to suppress ‘liberty’ and ‘free speech.’ In the...

LOS ANGELES — Adult industry-founded child protection nonprofit group Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection (ASACP) says that New York Times opinion columnist Nicholas Kristof overlooked their efforts in anti-CSAM operations. In December of 2020, Mr. Kristof published...

WASHINGTON — The anti-porn group National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) is openly calling for major search engines to block traffic to porn websites.  Dawn Hawkins, chief executive officer of NCOSE, alleged that Google has a “pivotal role in leading people to child...