The Republican-run state government of Florida is stepping up efforts to redefine legal and policy terminology in a campaign to censor free speech concerning sexuality.
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TickleLife, the first pleasure tech stack for the $1 trillion global sexual well-being industry, announced the first censor-proof Payment Gateway for the industry.
Ireland’s Justice Minister Helen McEntee today declared that she believes pornography has become “too easily accessible” and “more violent and degrading.” She made the remarks in response to a survey publicized by the local press, claiming that “one in five men in Ireland aged under 55 watch porn daily.”
Fox News’ Tucker Carlson has advised young men to avoid “casual sex” and porn, which he called “bad” and a cause of unhappiness.
The Utah State Board of Education has approved official guidelines for how to ban books and other material from school libraries, amidst a moral panic stoked by religiously inspired activists seeking to cleanse education of “pornography.”
After scrutiny from digital rights organizations like the Internet Freedom Foundation and influential tech news sources like Mashable India, however, MeitY backpedaled, announcing later in the day that it had “decided to withdraw the proposal and that the proposal may be released again next week.”
The justices, in a 5-4 decision, granted a request by NetChoice and the Computer & Communications Industry Association, which count Facebook (NASDAQ:FB), Twitter (NYSE:TWTR) and YouTube as members, to block the law while litigation continues after a lower court on May 11 let it go into effect.
Pappel herself issued an impassioned video through her social media explaining the background of the government’s attack on consensual sex work and urging support for the voices of actual sex workers and adult industry stakeholders.
Delegate Timothy Anderson (Virginia Beach-R) and Republican congressional candidate Tommy Altman requested the orders from Virginia Beach Circuit Court on May 18 as part of their larger, ongoing lawsuit targeting Maia Kobabe’s acclaimed LGBTQ+ memoir “Gender Queer” and Sarah J. Maas’ fantasy novel “A Court of Mist and Fury,” the Washington Post reported.
On Wednesday, without a word of explanation, the nation’s most radical appeals court reinstated a Texas law that imposes sweeping censorship on social media companies. The statute—which Republicans passed in retaliation against the perceived liberal bias of “Big Tech”—forces these companies to disseminate hateful expression, dangerous misinformation, and foreign propaganda, among other objectionable speech.
