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Anti-Porn Bill Won’t Focus on Public Conduct
Pornographic materials are now the focus of the latest incarnation of Indonesia’s anti-pornography bill.
Muslim Women Protest Anti-Porn Bill
An anti-porn bill has drawn criticism from an unlikely quarter: Muslim women. The bill, which is now being reviewed by a special parliamentary committee, has prompted nearly 1,000 Muslim women to protest in the streets of Jakarta, Indonesia’s capital.
House Passes 2257-Related Bill
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill today that includes an embedded provision that revises and strengthens 2257 record-keeping law and makes it an even more formidable task for adult website operators to remain in compliance.
Porn Game Bill Passes
Overriding the Entertainment Rating Software Board’s industry-endorsed rating system, the Utah House committee passed a bill this week that makes it a felony to sell video games depicting violence or sexually explicit content to anyone under the age of 18.
State Bill Would Require Libraries Block Internet Porn
Iowa libraries may be required to block computer access to adult content websites and restrict children from viewing R-rated movies under new legislation proposed by three Republican state senators.
Va. Bill Targets Third-Party Processors
Third-party credit card processors beware: The state of Virginia is close to passage of a bill that would criminalize the act of processing transactions used for online child pornography.
‘No Opposition’ to Calif. Bill Targeting Porn at Work
California state employees could be fined up to $1,000 a day for viewing online adult material under a bill that has cleared its first legislative hurdle.
Bill Seeks To Fine State Workers For Viewing Porn
California employees caught viewing porn on state-owned computers could end up paying a fine of $1,000 a day under the terms of a new bill that cleared its first legislative hurdle Jan. 10.
Bill Increases Child Porn Penalties
Adults whose images have been used for child pornography on the Internet will be allowed to sue for damages under bipartisan legislation introduced in the Senate this week.
Hatch Targets Online Adult Industry With Bill
Sen. Orrin G. Hatch, R-Utah, has quietly introduced legislation that would strengthen enforcement tools regulating online adult content on the Internet.
Canadian Bill Could Threaten Phone, Internet Privacy
In a move that brings Canada’s normally liberal politics more in line with recent U.S. actions in the privacy and free speech arena, Canada’s Liberal party introduced a bill this week that would give the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) and local police more leeway to obtain a person's name, address, telephone, cellphone number or identifiable computer data if they are suspected of a crime.
Porn Tax Bill Coming to Kansas
There’s no place like home, unless your home is Kansas and you’re in the adult entertainment business.
CEO Sued by Amex for Topless Bar Bill
Don’t leave home without it, unless, perhaps, like Robert McCormick, you plan to spend nearly a quarter of a million dollars at a topless club with it.
Rep. Pence Bends to Hollywood’s Demands, Revises Bill
Bowing to the demands of the mainstream entertainment industry, Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind., has promised to revise his proposed child pornography bill, HR 3736, giving mainstream movie studios a way to avoid compliance with even stricter U.S.C. 18 § 2257 regulations.
Congress Urged to Pass Internet Taxation Bill
A federal bill that has reached a House subcommittee would establish a clear definition of when states can levy income taxes, franchise taxes and business activity taxes on companies that have no physical presence in state, according to a new study.
FSC Says Pence Bill May Strengthen Case Against 2257
Legislation proposed this week by Rep Mike Pence, R-Ind., in a bid to beef up the U.S. Justice Department’s 2257 record-keeping regulations may actually strengthen the Free Speech Coalition’s current legal challenge to 2257, according to First Amendment Attorney Jeffrey Douglas.
New 2257-Related Bill Could Spell Big Trouble for Industry
Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind., this week introduced a bill before Congress that would strengthen the recently amended 2257 record-keeping requirements and heap even more restrictive provisions on the adult entertainment industry.
Porn Excise Tax Bill to Be Unveiled Wednesday
The online adult industry faces another regulatory assault tomorrow when Sen. Blanche Lincoln rolls out proposed federal legislation that would impose a 25 percent excise tax for all adult transactions.
Proposed Online Adult Bill May Be Introduced Next Week
Proposed federal legislation that would tax adult websites and place new requirements for age verification on websites and billing companies may be introduced as early as next week, an aide for Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark, told XBiz.
Canadian Child Porn Bill Resubmitted
A child porn bill that was introduced with the promise of promoting "the most comprehensive child protection regime of any country in the world" was re-submitted today amid concerns over possible civil rights abuses.