CANADA — In a decision released last week, the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC) found that an episode of the MTV Canada program MTV Live covering the subject of virtual sex was too sexually explicit for the morning time slot in which it was rebroadcast last...

THAILAND — Veteran adult producer John Gilbert Bowen, aka John T. Bone, and two other men were arrested Friday in Pattaya, Thailand by local authorities and are to be charged with “making videos of an offensive and sexually explicit nature,” according to the Pattaya Daily...

OCEAN CITY, MD — The City Council of Ocean City, MD this week unanimously approved a moratorium on the establishment of sexually explicit businesses in the town, pending the creation of local ordinances to regulate such businesses.According to The Maryland Coast Dispatch,...

PANAMA CITY, FL — Despite a judge’s order that he present himself by noon local time yesterday to begin serving his jail sentence for contempt of court, Girls Gone Wild owner Joe Francis did not appear to comply with the order – and both Francis and a spokesperson for his...

JAPAN — Three officers in the Japanese Navy who swapped porn files between their computers also may have leaked sensitive information concerning Japan’s missile defense system, according to the Reuters news service.Japanese police reportedly launched an investigation last...

KANSAS CITY, MO — Philip Cosby, executive director of the National Coalition for the Protection of Children & Families (NCPCF), has collected between 17,000 and 20,000 signatures from several counties in Kansas and Missouri calling on prosecutors to investigate adult...

DES MOINES, IA — Iowa’s State General Assembly is considering adding a new variety of indecent exposure law to the books; “indecent exposure through a webcam.”Under the current language of House File 762 (hf762), a person “commits indecent exposure through a webcam in the...

PHILIPPINES — While Newsbreak magazine is used to facing libel suits from angry politicians and squaring off with any number of public figures and companies over its investigative reporting, the website for Newsbreak faced a new kind of threat last week – link...

REDMOND, WA — Microsoft announced over the weekend that it would make a patch available for its animated cursor flaw this week, rather than wait until the scheduled monthly security update due to take place on April 10th.In an email to CNET/News.com, a Microsoft...

CANOGA PARK, CA — In a press release issued Tuesday afternoon, the Free Speech Coalition (FSC) issued its first public response to Federal District Court Judge Walker Miller’s recent ruling the FSC’s legal challenge to the federal record-keeping requirements most commonly...