Indian media outlets documented a marked rise this week in Google Internet searches for “rape video” and “rape porn” by users in the country, apparently seeking images of the brutal rape and killing of a doctor in a hospital seminar room.
Pornhub and other affiliated porn websites have blocked access to their sites for people in Texas over the state’s new age verification law.
Internal emails from internet porn giant Pornhub — and parent company MindGeek — revealed in a legal discovery show the executive team discussing the company’s shockingly weak policy on reviewing questionable videos, which was to only review a video if it had over 15 flags for criminal content. Such videos include revenge porn, underage girls, and even child rape.
A Texas law requiring age verification for porn sites was temporarily blocked by U.S. District Judge David Alan Ezra one day before the rule was set to take effect.
In a sweeping response to new age verification laws in various states, Pornhub has blocked access to its adult content in Arkansas, Virginia, and other locations, igniting a debate over online privacy, child safety, and governmental regulation. The pornography company bizarrely argues that asking users to prove they are at least 18 years old “will put children and your privacy at risk.”
The average British child begins consuming harmful pornography online at the age of 13 while ten per cent start watching at the age of nine.
Twitter reportedly considered allowing porn stars to monetize their adult content via an OnlyFans-style subscription feature, but the plans were quickly shelved after internal teams found that the company is unable to effectively police child sexual abuse material (CSAM) already on its platform.
Durham University in Durham, England, is reportedly offering its students online lessons on how to stay safe while working as a prostitute. The university also noted that there has been an “emerging trend” of its graduates going on to join the sex industry.
The French government has issued a decree stating that it may block pornographic websites that are unable to verify that minors can not access their content.
Porn site OnlyFans has reportedly reversed course on its plans to ban pornography on its platform less than a week after the subscription site announced plans to ban sexually explicit content alleging pressure from banking partners.
A recent report from the cybersecurity team at vpnMentor has revealed that a porn site has suffered a massive data breach, exposing the personal data of 4,000 adult cam models — including scans of passports and driver’s licenses, and model releases disclosing addresses, phone numbers, and other private information.
PayPal, which has banned some prominent conservative figures from its platform, has found a new group of undesirables to blacklist — porn stars.
The Australian government is reportedly proposing the use of facial recognition technology to verify the age of those who seek to watch pornography online.
A new study scanned 22,484 pornography sites and found them filled with trackers from major tech firms, including Google and Facebook.
The Oregon State University Department of Public Safety informed students that an unknown individual was filming women around campus without their knowledge and uploading the videos to porn sites.
The Catholic University of America in Washington DC has announced a decision to install a filter that will block pornography on the campus internet system.
The U.K.’s mandatory age-verification system for online pornography requires proof-of-age via passports, driver’s licenses, or credit cards.
A lawyer claimed the United Kingdom could soon force users to provide valid ID if they want to access social media sites, as the U.K. implements mandatory ID checks on porn users starting in April.
State lawmakers in Kansas recently introduced two bills that would effectively censor pornography in the state by requiring computers and smartphones sold in the state to have porn filters installed.
Alex Hawkins, the vice president of pornography website xHamster, claimed his site is seeing a decline in interest for “more aggressive sex acts” in videos.
Students at two major Catholic universities are making a push to have pornography censored from their campus internet services.
A group of students at the University of Notre Dame is demanding a filter that would block porn access on the campus internet service.
Searches for sex robots and virtual reality porn went up exponentially in 2017 on two popular porn websites: xHamster and PornHub.
The Atlantic claims online pornography is killing the environment at a greater pace than physical pornography ever did, in an article this week.
The commencement order of the Digital Economy Act of 2017, which gained Royal Assent in April, has started a nine-month countdown to the introduction of compulsory age verification checks that British citizens will have to complete before they are allowed to view online pornography.
LONDON (AP) — The British government says that starting next year pornography websites will have to verify that their users are at least 18.
On Tuesday, Utah became the first state in the country to designate pornography a “public health” issue.
TEL AVIV – Member of Knesset Miki Zohar presented a bill on Thursday to prevent automatic access to pornographic sites on the Internet.
The European Union voted through a new law in Brussels on Tuesday, making some internet porn filters illegal and obliging internet services providers (ISPs) to treat all online content “without discrimination, restriction or interference.” Certain ISPs such as BT, Sky