The bill also includes a section that takes aim at transgender individuals by prohibiting material "that includes a disconnection between biology and gender by an individual of 1 biological sex imitating, depicting, or representing himself or herself to be of the other biological sex."

Michigan lawmakers are proposing a total porn ban The "Anticorruption of Public Morals Act" H.B 4938 would prohibit the distribution of "real, animated, digitally generated, written, or auditory" depictions of sexual acts. www.michiganvotes.org/legislators www.congress.gov/members/find...

That three major British newspapers jumped on the poorly sourced (ATF to Steven Crowder to WSJ) line about the bullets having ‘trans’ symbols (actually a, wait for it, Helldivers 2 code) is such a tell on what they really care about. They really need to apologise (they won’t)

I’m sure there’ll be corrections in equally prominent positions in each of these papers, yeah?

Today is World Suicide Prevention Day. Stigma against sex workers, combined with criminalisation, negatively impacts their mental health.

. THIS is one of the biggest problems of our time . . . ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ .

4chan and Kiwifarms are suing British AV regulator Ofcom over age-verification enforcement, calling it the “official censor of the British state.” Ofcom says they’ll arrest the site’s operators. I won’t say I’m conflicted here, but boy does this work make for strange bedfellows.

8 years into a failed law and the supports for sex workers has not materialised. The radio segment this story is taken from highlights that the needs of sex workers are not being addressed. www.corkbeo.ie/news/local-n...

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Online age checks are on the rise. To proponents, they're a tool to keep children from adult websites. But opponents see a worrisome trend toward a less secure and less free internet, where people can be denied access not just to pornography but news, health information www.msn.com/en-us/techno...

"If you’re a transphobe, tell the people you’re dating. Even if they’re cis, I’m sure they’d also like to know so that they can make an informed decision about whether to sleep with you." Powerful NEW guest blog by Jenby <3 CN: transphobia www.girlonthenet.com/blog/no-sex-...

Important info! Some folks wondered why BlueSky stopped all service to Mississippi because of their age verification law, but they didn't stop service in other states/countries with age verification laws. This is why. The MS law is for all social media content, not just "adult" content.

Well, it sounded like he was consenting... 😲

Australia's age-verification regulation appears to be unravelling. Members of a government committee claim AV companies are wildly overstating the accuracy of their tech and unwilling or unable to prove they're deleting personal information post- verification. Several members have quit in protest.

Ive seen a lot but still shocking to see the glee of UK censors openly celebrating their success in stopping adults … from masturbating. The repression is the point. www.the-independent.com/voices/porn-...

Imagine if we proposed closing churches to protect kids from predators.

The issues around kids and social media and phones are complicated but what’s simple is that fascists at every level of government have clearly stated that they want to prevent the existence of trans and queer kids and trans and queer adults by limiting their access to the internet

Idk if its people being stupid or just plain disingenuous but the idea that sex workers don't count as experts of their own lived experiences if they don't have degrees in sociology or anthropology or whatever is goofy ass take You don't need a degree to tell your own damn story! You were there!

Just 14% of adults say they'd be willing to verify to look at porn. Making accessing information or entertainment so frightening that no one doesn't isn't safety, it's censorship. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

The numbers out of the UK on age-verification are devastatingly bad. A quarter of Britons are already using a VPN. And 22% have downloaded or considered a VPN since the OSA went into effect. 60% say it will increase government censorship. More than half say its making children less safe.

Censorship of porn is just the test run. Age verification is going to kill the open web mashable.com/article/age-...

Civil rights advocates raised the dangerous consequences of age-verification — LOUDLY AND REPEATEDLY — at every juncture. The VPNs, the shift to pirate sites, increased porn on social. They were ignored. Rather than admit they were wrong, the UK government is doubling down and blaming VPNs.

VPNs aren’t the problem. Terrible legislation is the problem.

People are reading AI-generated synopses of books and then claiming they read 100 books in a week. This is how the abolition of books began in Fahrenheit 451: classics were condensed into five-minute summaries for those too busy to do the reading. Later came the burnings.

In the early 2020s it was de rigueur among progressive 1A scholars to decry "Free Speech Absolutism" and then lazily gesture towards Europe and the UK as examples of properly balancing speech rights and the public interest in fighting misinfo & hate speech. They're strangely quiet these days...

But I was told by the New York Times that marriage equality was a stunning success that succeeded because of its modest political goals. Almost like the last two decades of progress were hollow assimilationism into a collapsing neoliberal order rather than actual liberation.

In other words, you may not be on UK soil but Visa and Mastercard are, and Visa/Mastercard will follow the direction of the UK. Given what's been happening in the gaming space over the past few days (and the adult industry for years), that's terrifying news for free speech.

Ofcom says that if you refuse to censor yourself under the Online Safety Act, it will force payment processors and ISPs to stop doing business with you. When the government can't shut you up, the banks and credit cards will. Absolutely terrifying. www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/r...

"We’re witnessing the real-time destruction of the internet as we know it." — @ericgoldman.bsky.social

"Once you’ve built the system to block kids from YouTube, you’ve built the system to block anyone from anything. And that system will be irresistible to future governments with different ideas about what content people need to be 'protected' from." — @mmasnick.bsky.social in @techdirt.com

"To be clear, the U.K. government isn't explicitly ordering restrictions or blocks on all this content. But blocks like these are an inevitable result of the system they are ordering."

Tl;dr: "This law breaks the internet, destroys online privacy, kills independent websites, wrecks accessibility, trains users to routinely bypass government blocks of genuinely illegal content, and offers less protection to kids than the tools that are already freely available from every major ISP."

#AgeVerification: what's the harm? In which I distill a lot of casual pub chats I've had with friends into a layperson's guide to the #OnlineSafetyAct. What it is, the problems it causes, and why you should definitely care. www.girlonthenet.com/blog/age-ver...

When politicians pass laws restricting "pornography," this is what they actually restrict: video games romantasy drag sex education healthcare LGBTQ+ sites young adult novels sexual assault resources dating apps contraception social media Wikipedia wifi access

Anyone who's tempted to cheer the state going after porn sites like XVideos should think twice. Uthmeier made a name for himself forcing the censorship of LGBTQ+ library books by calling them "patently pornographic" and "harmful to minors." If he's coming after us, he's coming after you.

They are making you pay so they can dodge the awful Online Safety Act they have imposed on you.

Support for age-verification in the UK has dropped an astounding 11 percentage points last week — from 80% approval prior to implementation to 69% now. Just 24% think they will be effective, down from 34% prior to implementation. That's a recipe for political disaster.

Following backlash from consumers, Itch has started re-indexing at least free adult games — and looking for other payment processors to being allowing developers to sell NSFW games on its platform again. Even Stripe says it hasn't entirely closed the door. Great work, folks.

when it comes to porn panics, we're repeating the mistakes of the past every damn day www.404media.co/steam-itchio...

Didn’t Take Long To Reveal The UK’s Online Safety Act Is Exactly The Privacy-Crushing Failure Everyone Warned About Well, well, well. The “age assurance” part of the UK's Online Safety Act has finally gone into effect, with its age checking requirements kicking in a week and a half ago. And what…

"An overzealous U.K. law in the country’s long tradition of disregarding civil liberties in favor of surveillance wouldn’t be such a big deal on its own But it’s emblematic of a larger trend: a comprehensively different internet where, before you can do anything, you need to reveal who you are."

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The Cartoonist Co-op stands against the censorship and pay discrimination of 18+, erotic, and NSFW artists. Check the link below for our official statement, ways to take action, and resources. cartoonist.coop/censorship-p... Art by @greedygulo.bsky.social

It feels like we should be making a bigger deal of “we actually did in fact find a cure for AIDS”

Reddit has now blocked r/NoFap in the UK over the Online Safety Act. The anti-masturbation forum can now not be accessed unless you submit biometrics or identifying information.

Ppl finding out that banking institutions ALSO hate sex work and sex and porn and anything NSFW ❤️

X: "When lawmakers approved these measures, they made a conscientious decision to increase censorship in the name of 'online safety" NO SHIT SHERLOCK

So many people suddenly deathly concerned about the censorship that the sex industry has been dealing with for years. This is what "canary in the coal mine" means. This is why you defend speech even if you don't like it. This is why you listen to people on the margins.

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