Conservatives
Editor of UK's Top Conservative Magazine Makes Outlandish Claims About Adult Content
The Commissioning Editor for The Spectator, the U.K.’s leading conservative magazine, published a sensationalizing editorial attempting to link adult content to the entirely unrelated current prosecution of a rapist in France.
Australian Conservatives Raise Concerns About US-Born Online Censor
Long after progressive free speech advocates in Australia questioned eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant over her campaigns to target adult content, conservatives and libertarians are now raising concerns about the powers granted to the country’s top censor — an unelected former tech exec born in the U.S. — with some calling for her ouster.
Idaho Conservatives Rally Against Porn Literacy Classes After National Panic Campaign
After a national moral panic campaign by right-wing blogs and social media accounts, Idaho conservatives are pressuring public officials to suspend porn literacy classes being offered as part of the state’s sex education programs.
Utah College Porn Studies Class Challenged by Conservatives
Conservative watchdog website Campus Reform is conducting a shaming campaign against a small liberal arts college in Utah that scheduled an elective film course analyzing the phenomenon of pornography.
Conservatives Vow Strict Age Verification for U.K., Overseas Porn Sites
Internet service providers in the U.K. would be forced to block all online adult sites that fail to include effective age verification if the Conservative Party is returned to power at the general election next month.
Study: Google Trends Reveals Porn Habits of Political, Religious Conservatives
A study conducted by researchers at Brock University in Ontario, Canada found that those who identify as more religious are more likely to use pornographic search terms on Google than their less religious peers.
Religious Conservatives Urge Bush to Increase Obscenity Prosecutions
A group of religious conservative activists have joined together to urge President Bush and the Department of Justice to step up obscenity prosecutions.
Christians, Conservatives Blast .XXX
Adult website owners and morality proponents don’t tend to agree on much, but there seems to be a swelling sentiment in both camps against the creation of a .XXX sponsored Top-Level Domain.
Conservatives Hope Goalie Case Lowers Obscenity Bar
Conservative groups are hopeful that the U.S. Justice Department’s case against adult retailer Goalie Entertainment Holdings will help lower the standards that must be met to obtain obscenity convictions.
Conservatives in Bed with Hollywood on File Sharing
In a surprise move, the Christian Coalition of America, the same group that lead the charge to put warning labels on rap CDs and raise fines for broadcasting indecency, came out in support of Hollywood this week in its court battle against peer-to-peer file sharing, citing a shared interest in reducing online child pornography.
Conservatives Decry Induce Act
The nation’s oldest conservative group came out against the Induce Act recently with a series of humerous advertisements poking fun at the legislation and any Republicans who might support it.