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UK Considers Blocking All Porn Sites

David Cameron wants you to have to 'opt in' with your ISP

(Newser) - British Prime Minister David Cameron is considering a move forcing Internet service providers to block all porn unless users specifically request it, the Guardian reports, in a move likely to be vigorously opposed by the ISPs, free speech groups, and teenagers sneaking onto their parents' computers. Cameron will consult on...

Court Clerk Watches Porn During Rape Trial

He said he was 'bored'

(Newser) - A "bored" London court clerk was busted after looking at hardcore bondage pornography in the middle of a British rape trial. The judge spotted the photos on the clerk's computer as he peered over his bench while the victim described her horrific attack. When the judge "noticed...

Relax, Catholics: No Porn at Vatican.xxx

Church worried someone had bought the racy web address

(Newser) - The Vatican may be an expert on the heavenly domain, but apparently it's still a bit shaky when it comes to domain names. A Vatican spokesman complained yesterday that someone had bought up Vatican.xxx, presumably to commit any number of sacrileges against the Holy See. "This domain...

PETA Launching .xxx Porn Site to Promote Veganism
 PETA Launching Porn Site 

PETA Launching Porn Site

Yes, it's real, spokesperson confirms

(Newser) - Buried in a Reuters article from last week is this priceless little nugget: PETA is planning a porn site. In advance of launching the .xxx Internet domain in December, ICM Registry is accepting applications from brand owners who want to protect their brands from being used in a .xxx URL...

TV Porn Sales Plummeting
 TV Porn Sales Plummeting 

TV Porn Sales Plummeting

Because that's what the Internet is for...

(Newser) - Cable and satellite providers are finally admitting two things that should be obvious: 1). They used to make a lot of money on pay-per-view porn, and 2). They don’t anymore. Yesterday DirecTV admitted that “lower adult buys” were to blame for drops in pay-per-view revenue, and Time Warner...

Swedes Jailed Over Philippines Cybersex Den

Men receive life sentences for running online porn business

(Newser) - A pair of Swedish men who ran a live online porn business in the Philippines have received life sentences for human trafficking. Police discovered 17 naked women, some of them underage, when they raided the business in a small town in the southern Philippines, the BBC reports. The women would...

Raunchy .XXX Debuts Online
 Raunchy .XXX Debuts Online 

Raunchy .XXX Debuts Online

First .xxx sites spring up despite porn purveyors' objections

(Newser) - The Internet's "red light district" has gone live, with the first sites using the .xxx domain name suffix making their debut. ICM Registry, the company tasked with running the new domain, says .xxx will only be available to the adult industry. For now, however, new sites like porn....

Parents, It's Time to Talk With Teens About Porn

Dr. Harold Koplewicz: It can distort their views of relationships

(Newser) - Sorry, parents, but it's time to add porn to that talk about the birds and the bees. The days of hidden Playboys have been replaced by a 24-7 pornography culture that gives confused teens a skewed sense of sexuality, as seen in all those lewd "sexts" and salacious Facebook...

.XXX: Porn Sites Get New Online Addresses
 Porn Sites Get .XXX Addresses 

Porn Sites Get .XXX Addresses

And porn industry not happy, considering legal action

(Newser) - The Internet got its very own street corner yesterday, as the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers gave the greenlight to a ".xxx" virtual redlight district. And purveyors of porn and the religious right alike aren't happy with the decision, reports the New York Times . “Our industry...

Users Sue YouPorn for Spying on Them

Site allegedly rummaged through browsing histories

(Newser) - It seems YouPorn’s been a very naughty website. Two California men have filed a class-action lawsuit, complaining that the homemade smut site has been spying on users’ surfing histories. When users surfed to YouPorn, a Javascript looked through their history to see which links have been marked as “...

Porn Use Climbs After Election Wins

Your guy gets the seat. Is your impulse to Google 'boobs'?

(Newser) - A fun theory called the Challenge Hypothesis states that testosterone levels get a jolt after a person wins at something—and it's held true when applied to everything from aggressive lizards to British soccer fans. Now two psychology professors have tested it on politics and porn, and their forthcoming study...

Google Instant Ignores Naughty Searches

Autofill function switches off if you're looking for, say, sluts

(Newser) - The Google Instant function introduced this week offers search results as fast as you can type—so long as you're not searching for famed NFL linebacker Dick Butkus. The instant search functions switches off when one begins to type certain words, including "penis," "hardcore," "slutty,...

Judge Quits Amid Porn Scandal
 Judge Quits Amid Porn Scandal 

Judge Quits Amid Porn Scandal

Manhattan judge 'cleavage crazed'

(Newser) - A well-respected Manhattan criminal judge has abruptly resigned after investigators found pornography on his workplace computer, said law enforcement authorities. James Gibbons—who was already on paternity leave after fathering a child with a 31-year-old Legal Aid lawyer—spent 14 years as a prosecutor before being appointed to the bench...

Content Reviewers See Worst of the Web
Content Reviewers See
Worst of the Web
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Content Reviewers See Worst of the Web

Too much of the Internet's dark side can affect mental health

(Newser) - Imagine spending your workday looking at the vilest images and videos the Internet has to offer. That's the lot of content reviewers, who fill an increasingly necessary role in an online world more and more driven by user-generated content. It's essential for social-networking sites to stay free of snuff videos...

Porn Sites to Get .XXX Domain Name System
 Porn Sites to Get .XXX Suffix 

Porn Sites to Get .XXX Suffix

Panel agrees to new suffix for adult entertainment online

(Newser) - Someday soon, .xxx could be bigger than .com in the Internet world. The panel that oversees domain names has agreed to create the .xxx suffix for porn sites on the Web, reports PC World . The move has been long debated, with proponents saying it will help filter such sites from...

Pranksters Add Porn to iPad Ads

Group having some fun with Steve Jobs

(Newser) - Apple has covered San Francisco with iPad advertisements, giving one group of pranksters plenty of ammunition to tweak Steve Jobs over his anti-porn ways . The group, Freedom From Porn, is pasting alternate screen images over the ads to make it look like the iPad users are looking at adult websites,...

China Unblocks Internet Porn
 China Unblocks Internet Porn 

China Unblocks Internet Porn

Sudden glut of online porn puzzles Chinese

(Newser) - Chinese web censors suddenly and unexpectedly unblocked tens of thousands of pornography sites this week, sparking—among other things—widespread speculation over its motives. Some believe that the government is trying to distract attention from today's anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, while others believe it's a move aimed at...

Porn Battle Rocks Wiki
 Porn Battle Rocks Wiki 

Porn Battle Rocks Wiki

Co-founder axes images, complaints erupt

(Newser) - Wikipedia's founders are battling against contributor objections to ax images they believe are pornographic from Wiki sites. Wikimedia Commons, a media file used by Wikipedia, last week deleted hundreds of images after co-founder Jimmy Wales said many of them appealed "solely to prurient interests." The action followed estranged...

State Lawmaker Views Porn on Senate Floor

 State Lawmaker 
 Views Porn on 
 Senate Floor 
Caught on Tape

State Lawmaker Views Porn on Senate Floor

For like 2 seconds, but still

(Newser) - Legislative sessions are really boring affairs, so who could blame state Sen. Mike Bennett of Florida if, during an abortion debate, he decided to sneak a peak at some naked ta-tas? In this video, Sunshine State News catches Bennett doing just that, while another senator drones, “I'm against this...

Porn Stars Decry Piracy in New Video (SFW) | Threat Level | Wired.com
 Piracy Is Naughty: Porn Stars 

Piracy Is Naughty: Porn Stars

Video of porn stars far less fun than you were hoping

(Newser) - The adult entertainment industry wants you to know you've been a very bad boy if you've downloaded its movies without paying. And for some inexplicable reason, the industry has chosen to deliver this message in a video shot entirely from the neck up, in which various porn stars offer gravely...

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