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[Link] UK Revives Dangerous Attempt to Verify Age of People Who Watch Porn
Read: 8/2/2022 www.vice.com
The bill would require social networks, and any websites that allow users to upload content, to enact a “duty of care” that would require sites to proactively remove harmful or illegal content.
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[Link] Another Porn Site Says Banks Forced It to Stop Paying Sex Workers
Read: 2/12/2021 www.vice.com
Throughout December, models can keep selling content as usual. On January 1, however, all content on the site will be free. AVN and AVN Stars did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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[Link] Arrested couple film themselves having sex in back of US police car
Read: 25/11/2021 www.news.com.au
A raunchy Florida couple got busted for having oral sex in the back of a police car – with the man yelling “F**k Five-O” during the recorded romp, according to an arrest warrant.
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[Link] Maryland Mayor Accused of Posting Revenge Porn to r/needysluts Reddit Forum
Read: 15/11/2021 www.vice.com
The mayor of a Maryland city was just charged with 50 counts of distributing revenge porn after he allegedly posted sexually explicit photos of a woman to Reddit while in office, according to a charging document released Monday.
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[Link] How a Far-Right Philosopher Ended Up Shooting Porn
Read: 6/11/2021 www.vice.com
Van Rooijen is part of KIRAC (Keeping It Real Art Critics), a controversial art collective based in Amsterdam. KIRAC rose to fame in the Netherlands through videos where they confront artists and their artwork, usually to expose what they see as a pervasive superficiality in the art world.
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[Link] Constant Craving: How Digital Media Turned Us All Into Dopamine Addicts
Read: 3/11/2021 getpocket.com
According to addiction expert Dr. Anna Lembke, our smartphones are making us dopamine junkies, with each swipe, like and tweet feeding our habit. So how do we beat our digital dependency?
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[Link] Online child abuse survey finds third of viewers attempt contact with children
Read: 3/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
The largest major survey of people who watch online child sexual abuse has found that one-third of respondents attempted to directly contact a child as a result of the illegal images they watched online.
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[Link] Instagram Is Punishing Users by Taking Away Their Link Stickers
Read: 19/10/2021 www.vice.com
Many Instagram users saw a notification that if they have violated the platform's Community Guidelines in the past, they will no longer be allowed to use links in Stories.
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[Link] Man Arrested for Unblurring Japanese Porn With AI in First Deepfake Case
Read: 19/10/2021 www.vice.com
Japanese police on Monday arrested a 43-year-old man for using artificial intelligence to effectively unblur pixelated porn videos, in the first criminal case in the country involving the exploitative use of the powerful technology.
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[Link] Man Pleads Guilty to Stealing Nude Photos From Hundreds of iCloud Accounts
Read: 18/10/2021 www.vice.com
Hao Kuo Chi, 40, pleaded guilty on Friday to conspiracy and computer fraud after he hacked into hundreds of iCloud accounts and stole nude photos, according to an announcement from the Department of Justice.
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[Link] 'Girls Do Porn' Victims Reach Settlement with Pornhub
Read: 17/10/2021 www.vice.com
Fifty victims who were coerced into having sex on camera by Girls Do Porn have reached a settlement with Mindgeek, Pornhub's parent company, according to a court document filed Friday. Terms of the settlement between the women and Pornhub were not disclosed.
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[Link] Former OnlyFans Employees Could Access Users’ and Models' Personal Information
Read: 30/9/2021 www.vice.com
Some former OnlyFans support staff employees still had access to users' data—including sensitive financial and personal information—even after they stopped working for the company used by sex workers to sell nudes and porn videos.
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[Link] Cloudflare Books Partial Victory in ‘Thothub’ Piracy Lawsuit
Read: 30/9/2021 torrentfreak.com
Cloudflare has booked a partial victory in a piracy lawsuit filed by several models whose photos leaked online. The CDN provider previously offered its proxying service to the now-defunct website 'Thothub'.
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[Link] Thai OnlyFans Star Faces Prison Time As Outrage Over Case Grows
Read: 22/9/2021 www.vice.com
Known by her online persona “Kai Nao,” which means rotten egg in Thai, the performer and her boyfriend, Korakot, broke the law by creating and spreading “obscene” content online, Thailand’s Cyber Crime Investigation Bureau said in a Facebook post on Tuesday.
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[Link] Massive Adult Site ‘Rule34’ Prepares Legal Action to Fight Bogus Homepage Delisting
Read: 11/9/2021 torrentfreak.com
Huge adult site 'Rule34' is preparing legal action to have its homepage restored to Google's indexes. The site's operator says that he believes he's been targeted with one or more bogus takedown demands.
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[Link] OnlyFans’ Botched Porn Ban Cost Creators Real Money
Read: 8/9/2021 www.vice.com
OnlyFans creators are still trying to recover the subscriptions and income they lost during the company's now reversed sexually explicit content ban.
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[Link] Judge: Michigan couple must pay son $30,441 for throwing out porn collection
Read: 28/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
US district judge Paul Maloney’s decision this week came eight months after David Werking, 43, won a lawsuit against his parents. Werking said they had no right to throw out his collection of films, magazines and other items, which he said then was worth $29,000 (£21,500).
[Link] The Social Impact That Deepfake Porn Has On Its Victims
Read: 23/8/2021 hackernoon.com
The amalgamation of deep learning and fake, deepfake technology lets people create content where the face of a person superimposes on the other person’s body for realistic-looking fake visuals. This AI-driven technology did more harm than good.
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[Link] The Congresswoman Behind FOSTA Is Coming for OnlyFans
Read: 13/8/2021 www.vice.com
More than 100 members of Congress signed a letter demanding the DOJ investigate of child sexual abuse material on OnlyFans—which adult industry experts say are baseless.
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[Link] Germany Is About to Block One of the Biggest Porn Sites
Read: 27/7/2021 www.wired.com
German child-protection regulators are on the verge of blocking one of the world’s largest pornographic websites.
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[Link] The Double Exploitation of Deepfake Porn
Read: 11/6/2021 thewalrus.ca
Over the past three years, celebrities have been appearing across social media in improbable scenarios. You may have recently caught a grinning Tom Cruise doing magic tricks with a coin or Nicolas Cage appearing as Lois Lane in Man of Steel.
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[Link] Canberra considers its digital ID for use in verifying age before accessing porn
Read: 2/6/2021 www.zdnet.com
The federal government has responded to a report on age verification for online wagering and online pornography, saying it is considering, at least in principle, if the nation's digital identity system could be extended to help with protecting children from online harms.