Porn Prohibitionists Miss Point
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If we're going to start worrying about porn, doesn't it make sense to actually study its role in society rather than make stuff up? Commentary by Regina Lynn.
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Closing arguments have completed in a trial aimed at overturning a 1998 law aimed at curbing pornography. While proponents of the law saw it is necessary to prevent children from viewing objectionable material, opponents say it hurts free speech.
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A legal campaign against sites that help people share films online appears to have forced a popular site to close.
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Well, Murphy&#8217;s Law kicked in this afternoon, and after attempting to disable comments on the original 2006 SEJ Search Blogs Awards post, the entire thing disappeared. Thin air. Poof. Houdini action. We&#8217;re all hoping that Matt Cutts can grab us a cached version of the original page that is newer than this one, but in the event [...]
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China is getting hard on porn. Those caught pushing pornographic images either through the Internet, mobile phones or pornography through phone sex, face a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.
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The online availability of free or low-cost photos and videos has taken a fierce toll on sales of X-rated DVDs.
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WASHINGTON - A Pennsylvania law requiring Internet service providers (ISPs) to block Web sites the state's prosecuting attorneys deem to be child pornography has been reversed by a U.S. federal court, with the judge ruling the law violated free speech rights.
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A Justice Department proposal to require more stringent record-keeping of porn stars' identities draws fire from webmasters who run adult sites. If enacted, they say, the regs may make it tough for them to stay in business. By Xeni Jardin.
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A federal court yesterday struck down as unconstitutional a path-breaking Pennsylvania law designed to prevent Internet users from seeing Web sites that contain child pornography.
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MILAN, Italy  - An irreverent Internet site  crammed with pornography has Italy's elite squirming with  unease.
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Many people in religious circles say it's one of the biggest problems facing families and congregations.  Yet:  It can go undetected.  It has no outward signs.  It is barely discussed.  The culprit? Pornography.  The Rev.
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More than a decade after employers began cracking down on those who view online pornography at work, porn is continuing to create tension in offices across the nation - in part because laptop computers, cellphones and other portable devices have made it easier for risk-takers to visit such websites undetected.
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A federal judge threw out on Friday a Pennsylvania law requiring Internet service providers to block Web sites containing child pornography, saying the tools to do so also cause "massive suppression" of constitutionally protected speech.    Enacted in 2002, the law gave Pennsylvania's attorney general the power to require that companies like America Online Inc...
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After a call for a boycott from a Roman Catholic archbishop, hundreds of complaints and one lawsuit from customers, the Canadian phone company Telus abandoned a service that allowed cellphone customers to buy soft-core pornography. Telus, based in Vancouver, began offering pornography to its five million wireless customers along with more conventional downloads like music and ring tones last month. Jim Johannson, a spokesman for the company, said the decision to end the service was based in part on âcustomer feedback.â Mr. Johannson, however, did not rule out a change in policy. âWe operate in a really, really competitive business,â he said. âIn this environment, itâs very difficult to predict the future.â.
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Just as before, law enforcement appeared overeager and bumbling. Just as before, a hyperactive press went into overdrive, eager to pronounce guilt. And just as before, a nation of voyeurs proved only too ready to play pundit.
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BEIJING -- From the walled compounds where China's Communist leadership runs the country has come the word: no more porn. No more nudity on the Internet. No more late-night erotica on the phone. Goodbye to racy text messages on the mobile.
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By Leader  EDINBURGH MP Nigel Griffiths is right to call for more control by website operators like YouTube over material which encourages criminal behaviour, but politicians should resist introducing formal measures to clamp down on such sites.