Look, kiddie porn and terrorism are bad. Obvious. But what better way for a government to push through controversial legislation quickly than to harness their emotive properties? After all, what self-respecting member of the US House of Representatives would vote against legislation called Securing Adolescents From Exploitation-Online, or SAFE? Only two, it turns out (Rep. [...]
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Posted in censorship, sexbloggers on Jun 3rd, 2007
Bacchus writes:
I’ve been saying for years that blogging services suck. I said it in 2004 when LiveJournal destroyed a vintage erotica journal that I liked. I said it again in 2006, when, you guessed it, LiveJournal started threatening to suspend users for posting pictures of nipples.
Well, I’m saying it again.
Of course it will come as [...]
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Posted in bloggers, censorship, china, sexbloggers on May 22nd, 2007
By Q Boyer
BEIJING — To further its ongoing effort to combat sexually explicit websites, the Chinese government last week arrested a blogger for posting sexually explicit stories to his website, the Chinese state news agency Xinhua reported.
The blogger, identified only by his surname Li, posted the stories to a blog called “Hazy Night.” According to [...]
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Posted in censorship, law, libraries, obscenity on Apr 23rd, 2007
A Bentonville, AK resident is suing for trauma allegedly caused when his two sons stumbled across a sex guide book shelved with the military books at the library:
A Bentonville man asked the city to pay his two sons $20,000 and to fire the library director for including what he called “pornography” in the Bentonville Public [...]
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Tony Comstock writes:
If you’re not a registered user with your super-secret “adult titles” search enabled, you can’t.
You can find 9 SONGS, a film about a fictional pair of rock-show going, coke-snorting lovers, that famously features explicit footage of felatio, cunnilingus, coitus, and even a pop-shot.
You can find PLAGUES AND PLEASURES ON THE SALTON SEA, the [...]
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Posted in Susie Bright, censorship on Mar 12th, 2007
…The New Yorker runs clever, sexually sophisticated stories all the time. They say “fuck.” They publish critically acclaimed erotic, and nude, photography. They discuss and illustrate thelives of famous artists (who can forget the Balthus story?) who may be highly eccentric fetishists with every sort of paraphilia.
Some of these articles receive wide discussion, like Daphne [...]
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