WASHINGTON – The internet as we know is about to experience a seismic shift. U.S. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai on Tuesday circulated a draft order ending net neutrality. The commission is expected to approve the order next month. Net neutrality has been the...

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Senate Commerce Committee on Wednesday unanimously advanced a bill that would limit the safe harbor provisions in the Communications Decency Act of 1996, allowing states to prosecute and victims to sue social media networks and others that fail to keep...

Hyperlinks are an important part of any press release. They lead readers to your website, where you can convert them into paying customers. There is one big caveat with press release links: Don’t include affiliate codes. Doing so can saddle you and anyone who publishes the...

Over the past two weeks, sexual misconduct scandals have called out mainstream celebrities like Hollywood producers Harvey Weinstein and James Tobak, right-wing pundit and former Fox News golden boy Bill O’Reilly, journalist Mark Halperin, former President George H.W. Bush and...

LOS ANGELES – In 1953, Hugh Hefner founded Playboy magazine with a dream, guts and a $1,000 loan from his mother. During the 64 intervening years, Hef’s project helped kickstart the sexual revolution of the 1960s and gave generations of men a suave, debonair, sexually charged...

WASHINGTON – Overnight Monday, the Twitter account belonging to Ted Cruz, the junior Republican senator from Texas, “liked” a 2-minute, 20-second hardcore pornographic video clip posted by @SexuallPosts. It’s not terribly difficult to infer Sexuall Posts exists solely to post...

PHOENIX – William James Hartwell has spent the past four years in court. He’ll spend the next 24 in prison. On Aug. 25, Hartwell was sentenced to considerably fewer than the 44 years prosecutors sought after his April conviction on 10 felony charges including operating a house of...

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Justice has ended a five-year-old program aimed at reducing commerce in adult entertainment and other “high risk” businesses by choking off the flow of money. Operation Choke Point, launched in 2012 by the DOJ in cooperation with the Federal...

CHICAGO – A U.S. district judge on Tuesday finalized a negotiated settlement of $3.75 million Canadian sex-toy manufacturer Standard Innovation will pay to end a class-action lawsuit brought against its app-controlled We-Vibe products. According to court documents, an estimated...

Social media is touted as the most interactive, least expensive way to communicate with potential and existing customers. Most mainstream media brands — and many adult entertainment brands — maintain active presences on the social media Big Three: Facebook, Twitter and Instagram....