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.

Joe Biden says Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act "immediately should be revoked," but like many other critics of Section 230, Biden seems confused and unclear about what Section 230 says, what it protects and what it doesn't.

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...

Let’s say you’re a socially conservative state legislator (or, more to the point, a legislator who represents a district packed with social conservatives) and you want to cook up some regulations designed to make it harder for people to sell, buy, or consume adult entertainment...

As he watches the civil lawsuit filed against GirlsDoPorn.com and its operators play out -- and waits for the criminal prosecution of those same people to begin -- Ben Suroeste keeps having a question pop into his head: How stupid are these guys? Before you answer that question,...

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...

In its apparent ongoing quest to copy the cyber-security and online content policies of the United Kingdom, Australia is weighing the merits of establishing an online age-verification requirement for people who visit adult sites, similar to an existing requirement for those who...

YNOT's Ben Suroeste doesn't ask much of the U.S. Congress -- just that America's Representatives and Senators legalize more of his favorite recreational substances, someday name a post office after Hunter S. Thompson and please, please, PLEASE not mess with Section 230 of the...

An anti-porn group in Minnesota is encouraging citizens to shun a media outlet, telling advertisers they're blindly supporting sexual exploitation. What is the media outlet in question, you ask? Pornhub, perhaps? HUSTLER magazine, maybe? Nope! It's the Minneapolis-based...

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......