Another Reminder of the First Amendment’s Value
LONDON – While reading the story of erotic photographer Annabel Findlay’s dispute with a neighbor and a builder working on her neighbor’s house, it occurred to me what may stand ...
Tag: porn and the law
Maybe She Just Wanted to Avoid the Lawyer Jokes
SOUTHAMPTON, England – The story of Ella Hughes, a former law student who now makes her living performing in porn, has spread far and wide since the BBC published an ...
Tumblr Declines South Korea’s Porn-regulation Request
SEOUL – The U.S.-based social platform Tumblr has declined a request from the Korea Communications Standards Commission (KCSC) to regulate porn on the service, stating the company is not subject ...
Congress Takes Aim At Revenge Porn In The Military
WASHINGTON – Months after news of the Marine Corps’ revenge porn scandal broke, it appeared to many observers and critics little of substance was being done about the problem. It ...
Porn Is A Public Health Crisis – And He Should Know
TAMPA, Fla. – Following in the footsteps of other legislatures around the country, Florida is now considering a resolution which would declare pornography a “public health crisis.” The language of ...
Gay Porn Used For Extortion In AZ Case
PHOENIX – In Arizona, an IT contractor has been sentenced to four years of federal probation after pleading guilty to wire fraud as part of an attempt to extort a ...
A Ruling Met With Scorn, But Good For Parody Porn
NEW YORK – A district court judge in New York has ruled a raunchy parody of the Dr. Seuss classic "How the Grinch Stole Christmas!" is a “transformative parody” protected ...
Uganda’s ‘Porn Detector:’ More Jobs Lost to a Machine
KAMPALA, Uganda – There’s news both good and bad for Ugandans with the imminent arrival of their country’s much-anticipated, Korean-engineered pornography detection machine. The device is called for under under ...
How to Go to Jail for Revenge Porn: Target Celebs
LOS ANGELES – If you have followed the evolution of revenge porn as a legal issue, then you’ve probably heard attorneys, activists and victim’s advocates talk about the difficulty of ...
Nine Years In, Still Blocking Porn One Site at a Time
JAKARTA – A little less than nine years ago, the Indonesian Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat (“People’s Representative Council”) passed a controversial piece of legislation called the Bill on Pornography, a somewhat ...
