Trump's FTC Chair posts that people opposing age-verification surveillance are just shills being "being paid by people who want to prey on your kids." The lengths this administration goes to delegitimize dissent is staggering.

Sex workers can’t exist online without people showing up in the comments to blame us for mens “porn addictions.”

Quittr, an app that promises to help men stop watching porn, leaked intimate data on hundreds of thousands of its users, and lied about its security issues, 404 Media can now reveal. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Story by @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social: www.404media.co/viral-quittr...

I challenged a CSAT on the scientific evidence behind “porn addiction,” & this was her response….Completely unprofessional imo 😵‍💫

Quittr vulnerabilities exposed the masturbation habits as well as private confessional diaries of 600,000 users, including 100,000 MINORS. And didn't fix the problem despite being made aware of it more than six months ago. It's almost as if it weren't a treatment app, but a surveillance app.

1908: the Lancet, one of the most respected scientific journals, calls for 18 age limit on reading in bed amidst a moral panic surrounding children becoming "addicted" to novels, which were "designed to keep kids hooked" and destroy their attention/mental health

"The question isn’t just a matter of accounting or accuracy. The extremely low revenue figures equate sex work with trafficking, and are used to justify increased censorship, policing and banking discrimination. Better data is both a business and a political issue."

I Challenged a CSAT Therapist on the “Porn/Sex Addiction” Model:

After a series of violent threats last week on NoFap Discord, now calls to "Destroy Mindgeek". They don't even know who they're referring to, but they want violence. This is why science on violence in NoFap remains important:this is not self-help & not for youth. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

it's hard to explain how horrible and dangerous this app and the people who made it are but I tried: www.404media.co/app-for-quit...

Having muscled age-verification through last session, AZ Republicans are pushing forward even greater restrictions on sex, including banning porn entirely (HB 2900), threatening adult producers with warrantless AG inspections (HB 2133) and HB 2720, which would make purchasing sex a felony.

Ever wonder where the "OnlyFans creators only make $150-$180/month" stat came from?...One guy scraped around 1000 profiles, guessed earnings from likes, ignored tips and PPV..& then posted it as a blog in 2020! People still cite this BS stat to shame sex workers:

Joseph Gordon-Levitt went to the Senate claiming to "hold big tech accountable" while promoting The Heritage Foundation's tech policy agenda and boosting groups like Morality in Media (aka NCOSE), which has sought to criminalize LGBTQ sex, w board members that support conversion therapy

I hate to say that sex workers tried to warn y'all this wasn't going to stop at just porn sites, but...

533 anti-LGBTQ+ bills filed this year. 120 more already pre-filed for 2026. The attacks are relentless — but so are we. Join the fight early. Be part of the resistance. woodhullfreedom.org/48mxJvX

Mastercard is bleeding, get in there. Make some calls. Get some cool family members in on it over thanksgiving

Remember this when you see scare headlines about the high rate of minors seeing “porn” online: They’re either not seeing it on porn sites or what they’re seeing isn’t actually porn. It turns out minors not necessarily know what “porn” even is. www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/no...

“I promise you, NCOSE would gleefully move to silence many RIAA-label supported artists, claiming their music is "obscene" and must be stopped. It would be nice if artists on RIAA labels spoke up about how they feel about the RIAA supporting NCOSE's attacks on speech.”

All of the most wholesome people I know are sex workers.

wild considering most sex workers I know have had at least one of their accounts yeeted for the crime of existing

"Companies will always prioritize their needs and safety over yours, and that uploading sensitive information to the internet will always come with risks and vulnerabilities, no matter how safe these companies claim your data is in their hands."

My time on ManyVids is ending now that the site is transitioning to an “exit program” for sex workers. I love my job. I don’t need a savior. I embrace and own my sexuality. Bella French profited off of sex workers for YEARS and is now pretending to be holier than thou. Tale as old as time🖕

Hidden in the controversial about UK "choking ban" proposal are a host of even more egregious proposals that could: * make camming illegal * redefine escort ads as pimping * render model contracts unenforceable * criminalize discussions of teen sexuality And a whole lot more ...

The Online Safety Act has made going online even more dangerous. Google is now warning that as Britons turn to VPNs to avoid the act, there's been an explosion in scam VPNs that sell data or provide it to state actors. Naturally, that would includes data on (and access to) minors.

As someone who has frequently defended free speech rights of sex workers and sex work advocates, it's completely unsurprising but nevertheless galling to be reminded once again how POWERFUL MEN talk fondly about sex work in private while demonizing it and pushing oppressive laws about it publicly.

@eff.org: "Websites subject to [Wisconsin's SB 130] are left with this choice: either cease operation in Wisconsin, or block all VPN users, everywhere, just to avoid legal liability in the state. One state's terrible law is attempting to break VPN access for the entire internet."

The number of visitors to Pornhub have dropped 77% as the UK's censorship campaign takes huge toll — not just on adult sites, but on the rights of Britons to access the internet anonymously. The government was warned this would happen and they didn't care.

Whenever I meet a "feminist" who wants to abolish sex work, I instantly know I'm talking with an unserious person who is not willing to do the work. Let's imagine, for the sake of the argument, that they were right and all sex workers were trafficking victims who wanted to leave sex work. 🧵

Prostitution sings… it’s never about trafficking it’s always about arresting adults making choices

If you want a balanced and evidence-based perspective on sex and porn use, follow @silvaneves.bsky.social @nicolerprause.bsky.social @davidleyphd.bsky.social

We know several anti-porn "doctors" offering fraudulent cures to young men. If you want an idea for how difficult it is to hold frauds like this accountable, follow the story of "Dr." Makis, who has had numerous complaints filed against him for years to try to stop his grift. cpsa.ca/news/stateme...

A colleague shared this scholarship on the harms of the NoFap Army being presented from Sweden!

Florida sheriff's department used ICE to round up sex workers under pretense of fighting human trafficking and child exploitation. Instead, they arrested 111 sex workers, none of whom was underage and none of which led to a human trafficking arrest.

"In parts of the country, the government would like sites to collect an unprecedented amount of identifying information about their users. In the whole country, the government would like to track down and prosecute those users if they are rude... It doesn’t take a mastermind to see the risks."

Not enough people are paying attention to a major target for Brendan Carr and the Trump admin’s crackdown on free speech: social media. It’s under bipartisan attack, even though it’s a crucial forum for reaching the public and fighting back. spitfirenews.com/p/is-anyone-...

Universities in the UK are warning students to report adult creator Bonnie Blue and her "Bang Bus" if it's seen near campus. SWERFs are painting as both exploiter and exploited, claiming students need to be protected from her "not empowering" sexuality.

The First Amendment is clear: Government officials cannot use their power to censor free speech.

Fight The New Drug,…..are you bad at research or just good at cherry-picking? 🥴 #sexworkersrights #endthestigma

CSATs on Social Media?!? 😵‍💫 this is concerning… www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8SmVTBg/

It’s not like they weren’t warned. When you make it difficult for adults to look at porn on actual porn sites, they start going to non-porn sites — social media, messaging apps — to look for it. Which creates and incentive for people to share it there. It’s a predictable cycle.

More kids are seeing porn now than before the Online Safety Act became law. It’s literally having the opposite effect. The major cause? X. The vast majority of minors saw porn, far outstripping actual porn sites. So of course, the UK government wants to double down with more censorship.

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.

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!

The Mississippi law requires social media age-verification — in addition to porn. The state argued that the precedent set in FSC v. Paxton gives it the power to require AV for just about anything online that a minor might see. So many people thought a law about “porn” wouldn’t affect them.

Unfortunately, Bluesky is unavailable in Mississippi right now, due to a new state law that requires age verification for all users. While intended for child safety, we think this law poses broader challenges & creates significant barriers that limit free speech & harm smaller platforms like ours.

"Censorship begets censorship ... We've reached the dystopian stage of the internet." This piece is a vital accounting of how we got where we are and where it's going if more people don't push back against what @ericgoldman.bsky.social calls age-verification's "segregate-and-suppress" laws.

As a sex worker, I’m more fearful of anti porn feminists than I am of my costumers. What does that say about them? UNHINGED BEHAVIOR #sexworkersrights

Yes, most people start jobs for financial reasons. It's sad that we need this research but good work as always to SWAI

❌You can’t “choose” to be a sex worker. False! ✅The truth? People choose sex work for many reasons. Just like anyone chooses any job. Get the facts! ➡️ www.woodhullfoundation.org/fact-checked...