BISMARCK, N.D. – For many years, I believed former attorney Jack Thompson, the man who once prosecuted 2 Live Crew for obscenity, spent years concocting and promoting flawed legislation that sought to regulate video games like pornography and was later disbarred for a variety of...

WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif. – GayHub.com, a gay-first tube site built by gay studios for gay studios and powered by live-cam giant Flirt4Free, has launched. “GayHub is part of a larger objective that we have to service the online gay community a little bit better,” said Director of...

NEW YORK – Age-verification amendments to the U.K.’s Digital Economy Bill would violate international human-rights accords by exposing internet users to breaches of privacy and curtailing free speech online, a United Nations official has warned. Furthermore, the bill’s...

LOS ANGELES – More than 100 winners of 2017 XBIZ Awards were crowned Jan. 12. Categories covered every corner of the industry, from performance and production to manufacturing and retail, plus all sectors of the online industry. Winners in the Web & Technology division were:...

BISMARK, N.D. – A nationwide trend to regulate what adults may access on the internet by requiring manufacturers to install filters on all new electronic devices reached a new low this week when legislators in North Dakota labeled all devices capable of connecting to the internet...

LONDON, Ontario – One of the reasons the scientific method has been so successful over the centuries is its reliance upon the ability of researchers to reproduce outcomes as a way to confirm prior experimental results. Repeatability and confirmability are crucial elements of any...

LOS ANGELES – On the Twitter account for pornstar-turned-politician Ela Darling, just above where her official @ElaDarling handle is displayed, are the words “Stoned Adulterer.” It’s a cute handle, sure, and certainly won’t shock Darling’s legion of devoted fans or voters who...

WASHINGTON – In the middle of a confirmation hearing at which the headline-making questions and answers were mostly about immigration, race and abortion, Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah raised the specter of pornography: Would Attorney General nominee Jeff Sessions...

VALENCIA, Calif. – Brendan Mahar, a 12-year veteran of global merchant services management, has joined Online IPS as vice president of business development. As the global ecommerce market has grown more sophisticated, Mahar has worked closely with merchants in some of the most...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – International classified advertising site Backpage, whose owners are facing criminal charges in at least two states, shuttered its adult-services ads sections on Monday after a scathing congressional report accused the company of knowingly accepting advertising...