Censorship
ManyVids Fights Backs Against Social Media Censorship With MV Social
ManyVids is taking a proactive stand against social media censorship with the expansion of its MV Social initiative.
Never Mind the Body Fluids: Twitter's New TOS Ramp Up All-Around Porn Censorship
While the adult community on Twitter continues focusing on specific items in Twitter’s latest revision to their Terms of Service (TOS) concerning what the company calls “sensitive material,” a careful reading of the new policy unveiled in March 2019 reveals a deliberate ramping up of porn censorship across the platform.
Dame Products Sues MTA Over Censorship
Dame Products, the female-fronted pleasure product manufacturer, is suing New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) on grounds of sexism in regards to the company's proposed advertising campaign.
Escalating Censorship, Discrimination Sparks Sex-Positive Activism
Today’s generation of sex toy lovers has been lucky enough to have the most access to pleasure products and sex education than ever before.
'Be A Bimbo' Opposes Instagram Censorship
“Be A Bimbo” founder Alicia Amira is taking a stand against Instagram’s self-regulation of “sexually suggestive” content that may now not show up in feeds or searches or be deleted entirely.
Online Censorship Gains Momentum With Instagram's New Policy
“Reduce, remove, inform” is the name of the game over at Facebook and as of yesterday, they’ve rolled out more policy designed to ensure that the content they recommend to people “is both safe and appropriate for the community,” as per their company newsroom.
SXSW Confronts Sex Censorship, Draws Controversy
Andrea Baricca, CEO and Founder of O.School, inadvertently set the Twittersphere abuzz last night when she posted regarding a speaking engagement at the upcoming SXSW Festival.
Abigail Mac Talks Anti-Porn Censorship on ABC's 'Nightline'
As social media and academia, once the greatest defenders of free speech, increasingly flex their censorship muscles to dictate what content the American public should and should not be exposed to, ABC’s "Nightline" delved into the recent porn banning efforts of Tumblr and Notre Dame students.
HarrietSugarcookie.com Tackles Censorship, Brexit
HarrietSugarcookie.com is shining a spotlight on a new U.K. law that is set to go into effect this summer, potentially restricting access to over four million adult websites worldwide.
Online Censorship: Beyond Adult
From moves by the U.K. and other governments to mandate online age verification, to fears over potential restrictions on adult entertainment by the incoming U.S. administration, a range of content consumers and creators are eyeing the future of digital media freedom.
Woodhull Issues Statement on Censorship at Utah Pride
The Woodhull Freedom Foundation today issued a statement regarding the recent decision by the organizers of Utah Pride to exclude operators of the MormonBoyz.com and MormonGirlz.com websites from participating in this year’s festivities.
Sex & Censorship: U.K. Seeks to End Anal Sex in Porn
Sex & Censorship today issued a statement about the U.K. government's age-verification consultation survey that closes tomorrow.
FSC Joins the National Coalition Against Censorship
The Free Speech Coalition said today that it has joined the National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) and will be working with the group on upcoming censorship issues, including the battle over California’s condom ballot measure waged by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation.
Sunny Leone's 'Mastizaade' Releasing Amidst Censorship Controversy
Controversial Bollywood sex comedies "Mastizaade" and "Kyaa Kool Hain Hum 3" will release in late January with 'adult' certificates, after narrowly surviving the censorship gauntlet of India's Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC).
Felt-Filled Sex Shop Challenges U.K. Censorship Laws
Craft artist Lucy Sparrow recently challenged U.K. censorship laws with a sex shop made entirely of 5,000 felt products, months after fetish and BDSM pornography was essentially outlawed.
The Atlantic Exposes Social Media’s Censorship of Sex-Ed
An article on TheAtlantic.com points out the inconsistencies in Facebook’s and Twitter’s policies regarding sexual content and how it’s preventing access to positive, safe-sex information.
FSC’s Diane Duke’s ‘50 Shades of Censorship’ Published on HuffPost
Free Speech Coalition CEO Diane Duke today authored an op-ed in the Huffington Post on the many degrees of censorship in the adult entertainment and pleasure products segments.
Cops and Throbbers: Censorship, Regulation in the U.K. Gets Underway
Last year when I spoke on an adult entertainment industry panel I made a clear distinction between what I consider to be censorship and regulation, and I would urge you all to draw a similar line.
Television X Babes Release U.K. Censorship Protest Video
Television X's TVXbabes, the porn stars behind the Christmas single “Coming for Christmas,” have released a boobs-out alternative version of the video to counter "No More Page 3’s" Christmas single offering, released Dec. 15.
Video: Hundreds Demonstrate Over U.K. Porn Censorship Law
Several hundred protesters outside Parliament made their points clear today: The new law putting a crimp on streaming various acts of pornography has got to go.