Michigan’s dystopian ‘Anticorruption of Public Morals Act’ would criminalize all porn and depictions of Trans people online 🚫 From Eco’s Classic Signs of Fascism: stoke fear of difference + limit access to (sexual) knowledge to prevent critical reasoning or resistance www.them.us/story/michig...

The author of this Arizona age-verification bill admitted that *he* would never upload a government ID to access but passed this law for the rest of us.

Michigan lawmakers have introduced a bill prohibiting the any "depiction or description" of trans people or trans existence online, including it in a bill banning "pornographic" material The bill would completely erase trans people online, equating them with porn.

Rotten man will be rotting where he belongs www.404media.co/michael-prat...

Been trying to explain these ideas simply FOR YEARS and I finally figured out how youtu.be/YPM31WZjR3w

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“The median OnlyFans creator makes just $180 per month. The top 1 percent of accounts make 33 percent of all the money, and the top 10 percent gobble up 73 percent of the funds paid out.” www.townandcountrymag.com/society/mone...

The introduction of age-verification in the UK this weekend appears to be an unmitigated disaster. Anyone accessing socials now has to upload ID, scan their face or otherwise verify. The outrage is widespread and everyone is just finding workarounds. The government has gone into defense.

We may have the chance to hire an outstanding researcher 3+ years post PhD to join Tarleton Gillespie, Mary Gray and me in Cambridge MA bringing critical sociotechnical perspectives to bear on new technologies. jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo...

Oklahoma’s top “porn-free schools” crusader just got caught broadcasting nude women on his office TV—during a government meeting. Now Ryan Walters is blaming everyone but himself, including the media, his GOP colleagues, and the laws he helped pass. Moral panic was his brand.

I’ll be going live on my YouTube channel this afternoon/evening to discuss age verification, the censorship of Steam & itch.io, and the grifting anti-LGBTQ, anti-porn organizations that are intent on ruining the internet. 🙃🙃🙃 youtube.com/@siridahl

Anti porn feminists are just white supremacists with better branding

Thousands of sex workers are being swept up in targeted ICE raids of massage parlors and abducted off streets with the help of facial recognition. Law enforcement is using the threat of deportation to commit widespread sexual assault. But the larger immigrant rights movement is shunning them.

Sexuality is a huge part of our identity and community development, yet access to sexual education, healthcare and content is often spun as 'harmful' The 'Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton' decision implies we have no legal right to privacy when viewing pornography www.vox.com/scotus/41806...

WSJ: The Mysterious Billionaire Behind the OnlyFans Porn Empire. By @samschechner.com and Katherine Sayre. Gift link! OnlyFans is for sale for $8 billion. The owner and his wife are Soviet Jewish émigrés who are philanthropists. Delighted to see Maggie MacDonald (UofT) quoted! @internetmaggie.com

The idea that War on Porn will only have positive outcomes! That it will only target "bad" stuff, that it doesn't require broad digital surveillance, or suppression of sexuality, or that it won't be turned against marginalized people. The same absolute hubris of these people.

The Swedish law criminalizing the purchase of online sex (e.g., cams, livestreams, customs) goes into effect July 1. Sex workers are sounding the alarm: fears about platforms blocking Sweden entirely, about increased digital surveillance, about being pushed into more dangerous work.

CALLED IT www.politico.eu/article/porn...

Ah yes, France - notorious lovers of govt. interference in their civil liberties! State-enforced censorship of pornography has such a strong track record over there 😌 www.bbc.com/news/article...

The inanity of age-verification laws in one image.

Bluesky right now:

The VPN spike in France over the Pornhub ban has now surpassed the massive spike that followed the US TikTok ban in January.

"The migration away from legitimate sites is already impacting performers. Some who saw their income plummet after age-verification laws took effect have turned to in-person sex work, which poses greater risks than porn because it remains criminalized almost everywhere in the US."

Seen this going around and it's not true: Substack is fine with porn, it's their payment provider (Stripe) that's against it. Not batting for Substack here, it's important to remember that when it comes to porn, it is rarely a 'platform' problem, it's a 'payment provider' problem. 🧵

It's an absolutely bizarre bill only criminalizes porn if you purchase it from a creator themselves. Studio content and pre-recorded content are exempted. As with all "Nordic model" legislation, it actually takes away independence and agency and requires sex workers to work through third-parties.

Sweden has gone ahead and passed their draconian "Nordic Model" bill criminalizing online creator content. As of July 1, consumers who purchase an OnlyFans clip, a cam show or other creator content will be subject to arrest and a year in prison All in order to "protect" women from exploitation.

so... Sweden just made independent porn like OF illegal. now if you want to work online, you HAVE to rely on the studio system - you know, the one full of the issues and abuses people claim is their main concern. awesome.

Sex and sexuality are under like never before. Organizations like @woodhullfreedom.bsky.social are defending YOUR right to live and love as you wish. Please support this vital organization with a contribution… Every coin counts!

“These people did not stop looking for porn. They just migrated to darker corners of the internet.” New research shows age-verification laws don’t work — and make the internet more dangerous. mashable.com/article/age-...

dipshits in 2019: you people are NPCs, you don't even think for yourselves dipshits in 2025: I have outsourced my thinking to Clippy

the Obscenity Definition Act that would criminalize porn - anyone posting content that’s at all sexual or “intended to arouse” could be prosecuted for a federal crime @samleecole.bsky.social on the act’s reintroduction by Republicans this week www.404media.co/mike-lee-por...

i'm so thrilled to share this piece on how video game sex scenes are made — and even more thrilled to see it on @404media.co!!! sex has been a part of games across its history, but often to provoke to as a joke. others are trying something different:

"After peeling off all those layers of initial distance, getting to know each other better, what does it mean when the characters can now fully express themselves?" @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social breaks down how sex in games gets done: www.404media.co/how-video-ga...

It's hard to overstate how much of the misogyny of the manosphere is directed at adult creators, who subvert the incels' imagined power dynamic, in which they, the "Chads" draw women like flies. To them, paying for OF (or begging for nudes) is a beta move. They do it anyway and hate themselves.

Deep dish transubstantiation 🕊️

My allegiance lies with The Brothers Iantorno ⚔️ @mathewiantorno.com @michaeliantorno.com

Unethical researchers have been secretly experimenting on Reddit Infiltrating r/changemymind with undisclosed AI conversations, they deceived users (+violated sub rules) to 'assess LLM persuasiveness' 😒 Redditors call it shameful, infuriating & very disturbing www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

BREAKING: the biggest deepfake porn site is down potentially for good www.404media.co/mr-deepfakes...

The aim of writing assignments isn’t to produce a certain amount of text content that sounds a certain way. It’s for students to think, write, write out their thinking and think about their writing, in ways that inform their thinking and writing afterwards. Gen AI isn’t useful for any part of that.

One of the largest sources of nonconsensual deepfake pornography is shutting down www.404media.co/mr-deepfakes...

Wrote a historical piece that defends funding for NPR and PBS. Whatever their problems, we cannot let Fox News become our default "public sphere." There needs to be alternatives, including imperfect yet aspirational ones.

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Why is AI governance so often ineffective at preventing AI from harming people and the planet? My new paper Transfeminist AI Governance addresses this question, now out in this month's issue of First Monday: firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...

Disgusting move from @mcgilluniversity.bsky.social

My people! Do you have standout ♥ pop culture ♥ readings to recommend? I'm teaching ~Popular Culture and Society~ at UofT, ft. a syllabi packed w. media studies foundations Any favourite works on sub/countercultures, representation, fandoms, creators or similar gems I should check out?

As the creator economy is playing a bigger role in the political realm, politicians want to collaborate with the biggest creators in the room, but overwhelmingly these creators are men.

SCOOP: A non profit seeking to be the middleman between liberal creators and the Democratic party has been using creators' images without their consent for fundraising. Read my full rundown of the chaos unfolding among Democrats as they try to court influencers