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Pinedale Forum 2020

Pinedale Forum 2020 Announces Opening, Immediate Postponement

PINEDALE, Wyo. – The Pinedale Forum, Wyoming’s premier adult industry gathering since 2015, has announced the opening and immediate, indefinite postponement of its 2020 event. “Registration opened this morning and things are already rocking!” tweeted Reggie Cheney, the Founder,...
Posted On 20 Aug 2020
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Bassett copyright case

Artist’s Copyright Case Against Mile High Set for Jury Trial in February

U.S. District Judge Patti B. Saris issued an order on Thursday granting plaintiff Leah Bassett summary judgment as to liability for copyright infringement and denying the defendants’ motion for summary judgment on the same count. Back in May, Saris issued an order granting in...
Posted On 07 Aug 2020
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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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public health crisis

Memo to Legislatures: THIS Is What a “Public Health Crisis” Looks Like

Remember all those resolutions passed by state legislatures declaring porn to be a "public health hazard"? YNOT's Ben Suroeste thinks they look just a *little* inflated in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic...
Posted On 02 Apr 2020
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Stop

State Legislators Need to Stop Listening to Chris Sevier

When Rhode Island State Rep. Grace Diaz decided to briefly champion a bill called the "Stop Guilt by Association Act" she didn't know how ironic that choice would prove to be -- because she hadn't a clue who the bill's author was, or how many other failed bills originated with him.
Posted On 10 Mar 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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Joe Biden

Joe Biden is Clueless on Section 230 – And He’s Not Alone

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.
Posted On 20 Jan 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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Legislators Love the “Secondary Effects” of Adult Entertainment

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...
Posted On 26 Dec 2019
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