Alice Rose

Opinion | These Internal Documents Show Why We Shouldn’t Trust Porn Companies

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He is at it again!

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/10/o...

Dawn Hawkins is a life-long Mormon and Republican activist who has become quite wealthy promising donors that she will achieve the “eradication of porn.”

By “porn” she means ALL sexual expression, including the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, Cosmo, and vast amounts of literature and movies.

To present Dawn Hawkins as merely “a concerned parent” is like quoting Steve Bannon in an article about politics and calling him “a hip-hop-loving former investment banker.”

Porn industry, parent groups clash over online age-verification laws The debate over widespread availability of pornography in America will soon enter a new phase as the Supreme Court decides whether states can require online age checks.

To characterize the head of the largest, best funded right-wing pro-censorship lobbying group (aka, NCOSE/Morality in Media) as merely “a concerned parent” is despicable, agenda-installing non-journalism.

Fuck off, ABC News:

abcnews.go.com/Politics/por...

How one woman’s efforts are shaping the fight against porn and sexual exploitation From Congressional briefings, to corporate offices and even on the airplane, Dawn Hawkins is raising her voice on behalf of human dignity

This is the Mormon mouthpiece organ touting Dawn Hawkins as a religious crusader for censorship on a divine mission to protect Mormon men from satanic temptation.

In her own words. ABC’s “concerned parent” my ass:

www.deseret.com/2022/6/21/23...

The establishment of state censorship will be gradual and expansive, because if they do it all at once, Dawn Hawkins loses her meal ticket. There needs to be always more stuff for NCOSE/Morality in Media to reclassify as “porn” or “harmful to children.”

Dawn Hawkins is a life-long Mormon and Republican activist who has become quite wealthy promising donors that she will achieve the “eradication of porn.”

By “porn” she means ALL sexual expression, including the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, Cosmo, and vast amounts of literature and movies.

By the same logic, Bill Maher should not get mad when going forward the sex workers he hires refuse to call his impotence “E.D.”

Another day, another notification that twitter put a sensitive content warning on my pictures that have no nudity or violence 🙃

The EARN IT Act is back and heading for markup today. It’s still terrible. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/05/04/lawmakers-again-want-advance-earn-it-act-cybersecurity-experts-still-oppose-it/

FAQ for new NSFW posters:

- 12 likes on a post gets you on “what’s hot” where everyone on the app can see your post

- no shadowbans/profile suppression here! (filters work on a per-post basis) so post whatever you want 🙂

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25 pages + 10 interviews on censorship, stigma, art and decentralization, published october 2022 on ipfs: itsnotweb3.eth.limo

This is a nifty study that shows that the more morally opposed to porn someone is, the more sexual shame they'll experience when they encounter it, and that spirals to decreased sexual and relationship satisfaction. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32573369/

I can’t stand him