Elizabeth Caroline

Chokehold on Porn: UK’s New Ban Sparks Debate on Pleasure, Power, and Protection in Queer Communities | EDGE United States The UK government is set to ban online porn depicting choking, a move hailed as a victory for protecting women and girls but raising urgent questions about sexual expression, kink culture, and queer s...

“Whenever laws are passed about sexual content, queer people are almost always collateral damage.. We lose spaces where we can talk openly and safely about what turns us on, what keeps us safe, and how we navigate intimacy in a society that’s still learning what consent means."

the adl removed several actual neo-nazi groups from its database, but not pepe the frog. jonathan greenblatt will never speak for me.

Government outlines punishments people will face for breaking new porn ban The UK government is banning strangulation and suffocation as part of a crackdown on violent porn, which is leading to a rise in violence against women

British MPs rolled out details on their ill-defined "strangulation" censorship law, saying that mere *possession* of consensually produced content, even a private video made with your partner, would carry a two year prison sentence.

Teen Vogue and WIRED are both part of Conde Nast. If they've cut the politics coverage at Teen Vogue... it makes me worried they'll cut Wired as well. I hope not, but...

Tweet from Heritage Foundation's boss Kevin Roberts: Thank you, Jonathan Haidt, for reminding everyone Heritage yesterday that tech tycoons like Leonid Radvinsky and Solomon Friedman are profiting to the tune of millions by preying on America's young men and women. We are proud to be in this fight with you. It is time to arrest, prosecute, and convict the sick perverts behind OnlyFans and PornHub.

There are a large number of Democratic politicians who insist that Jonathan Haidt is a reliable narrator and one who they should take their legislative cues from. They should be asked why they're supporting someone the Heritage Foundation is cheering on in their efforts to censor the internet.

Queer art isn't illegal. But lawmakers in Oklahoma believe that if they make the criminal liability threatening enough, event spaces, permit boards, municipal clerks and protest organizers will treat it as if it is — and do the censorship for them.

one of the best sci-fi movies ever

My org got to host our kickoff event today! (I really wanted an excuse to wear this outfit)

North Little Rock School District instructs staff to hide books with LGBTQ+ content from reading platform | Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette North Little Rock School District officials on Tuesday instructed the district's staff to remove dozens of books containing LGBTQ+ material from its digital reading platform, according to a leaked mem...

Librarians in Arkansas are being instructed to hide over 50 books with LGBTQ+ content, as a new law makes it a crime for them to allow students to access to "material harmful to minors."

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Ohio legislators have introduced another "adult cabaret performances" ban that LGBTQ+ advocates say will outlaw drag queen shows in public. House Bill 249 was introduced at the Statehouse on Tuesday to ban "adult cabaret performances"" defined as a show "harmful to juveniles" that features "entertainers who exhibit a gender identity that is different from the performers' or entertainers' biological sex." The bill would prohibit these shows in all locations other than "adult cabarets," meaning "a nightclub, bar, juice bar, restaurant, bottle club or similar establishment." Dwayne Steward, Equality Ohio executive director, condemned the legislation as "censorship" that would restrict any gender nonconforming performance in public. Steward argued the bill is "a blatant attempt by politicians to suppress cultural expression under the guise of protecting children."

Ohio legislators are advancing HB 249, a bill that criminalizes drag performances unless they're in a strip club or adult theater.

Proponents say drag is obscene and should only be allowed "behind closed doors."

But it goes far beyond drag and closed doors.

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At this point, if you do anything in partnership with the ADL, I presume you're actually PRO antisemitism.

Remember that the predominant form of age verification for porn sites — the new mandates passed in nearly every red state in the past few years — is a facial scan coupled with government ID.

Halo co-creator says ICE’s Halo-themed recruitment ad “makes me sick” Another Halo maker says ad "ought to offend every Halo fan, regardless of political orientation." ALSO: A developer whose game just launched on Xbox slams Microsoft’s silence

Halo co-creator says ICE’s Halo-themed recruitment ad “makes me sick”

Porn sites not asking for age verification despite new Ohio law Nearly a month after an Ohio law went into effect requiring pornographic websites to verify the age of users before showing explicit content, many porn sites have taken no action in response to the ne...

Only one of top 20 adult sites is complying with the age-verification law in Ohio, which Pornhub claims exempts "interactive computer services," a term commonly used to refer to ... websites.

Lawmakers are digging in, saying they disagree with the definition they included in their law.

My general rule of thumb is never trust any internet bill from Josh Hawley or Richard Blumenthal. And if it's from both of them, it almost certainly should be tossed into a burning fire pit never to be spoken of again. This is another moral panic nonsense bill.

Someday, law schools are going to teach entire semesters built around Ken Paxton.

Public corruption, speech infringements, internet regulation and now this:

thank you!

Words can hardly capture how proud I am of my students.

I'm so excited about this new student organization dedicated to the First Amendment and I'm honored to serve as their faculty advisor.

My co-founder and I just launched the First Amendment Law Society. In a time of rising censorship, we built space for law students to speak, dissent, and shape the future. Grateful to our school @jmiers230.bsky.social. Say it. Mean it. Make it matter.

We got to "Reaganomics Was Woke And Gay!" a lot sooner than I figured we would.

my favorite fact of all time is that the Star Trek fandom, deeply responsible for fandom as we know it, was born out of bored housewives fujo-ing out over Spock and Kirk.......

From a NCOSE email: KOSA “Duty of Care”: What is it and Why Does it Matter? “There were bad videos that gave me nightmares one time. Told me to hurt my family.” The above quote is from an 11-year-old girl talking about her experiences on YouTube.

Guys we need KOSA because the internet is made of demons

Kamala Harris Suggests She Is Considering Another Presidential Run

Biden's vanity got us here. Kamala's could kill us all.
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“People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.”

-V for Vendetta

UPDATED: Aylo Accuses Ofcom of Ineffective AV Enforcement AVN Aylo, the parent company of Pornhub.com and other adult platforms, accused the United Kingdom's (UK) digital regulator of ineffective enforcement of the age verification requirements outlined und...

Traffic to Pornhub has fallen by more than 75% in the UK since the introduction of the Online Safety Act, as legal adults have shifted to the thousands non-compliant sites, supercharging the growth of platforms that don't moderate for pirated content, revenge porn and CSAM

An unmitigated disaster.

This is activism. Not journalism.

Ohio introduced a bill that is being touted as a the AI marriage ban bill which is cutesy but the bill actually regulates Chatbot outputs and "faulty" speech.

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Before Advocating To Repeal Section 230, It Helps To First Understand How It Works Brian Reed’s “Question Everything” podcast built its reputation on careful journalism that explores moral complexity within the journalism field. It’s one of my favorite podcasts.…

I wouldn't normally devote 5k+ words to a single podcast, but I'm hoping Reed will read it and think carefully about what he's doing. He has tremendous, well-earned respect among journalists. And I don't understand why he appears to be lighting it on fire.

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Look, we get it. You hate social media. There's nothing really wrong with that take.

The problem is when you're putting it out there under the guise of doing "good journalism" about Section 230 and the legal landscape of the Internet. Come on now.