Censorship
Felt-Filled Sex Shop Challenges U.K. Censorship Laws
Craft artist Lucy Sparrow recently challenged U.K. censorship laws with a sex shop made entirely of 5,000 felt products, months after fetish and BDSM pornography was essentially outlawed.
The Atlantic Exposes Social Media’s Censorship of Sex-Ed
An article on TheAtlantic.com points out the inconsistencies in Facebook’s and Twitter’s policies regarding sexual content and how it’s preventing access to positive, safe-sex information.
FSC’s Diane Duke’s ‘50 Shades of Censorship’ Published on HuffPost
Free Speech Coalition CEO Diane Duke today authored an op-ed in the Huffington Post on the many degrees of censorship in the adult entertainment and pleasure products segments.
Cops and Throbbers: Censorship, Regulation in the U.K. Gets Underway
Last year when I spoke on an adult entertainment industry panel I made a clear distinction between what I consider to be censorship and regulation, and I would urge you all to draw a similar line.
Television X Babes Release U.K. Censorship Protest Video
Television X's TVXbabes, the porn stars behind the Christmas single “Coming for Christmas,” have released a boobs-out alternative version of the video to counter "No More Page 3’s" Christmas single offering, released Dec. 15.
Video: Hundreds Demonstrate Over U.K. Porn Censorship Law
Several hundred protesters outside Parliament made their points clear today: The new law putting a crimp on streaming various acts of pornography has got to go.
U.K. Porn Censorship to Be Protested on Friday
More than 700 have elected to attend a mass face-sitting protest outside Parliament on Friday against new rules for distributors of online adult content.
Law of Sex: Fighting Private Censorship
Government censorship in the Internet age has been a consistent focal point for free speech advocates. Recent examples of censorship by the American government can be egregious, including the curtailment of First Amendment rights through mass surveillance, over-regulation of disfavored speech, criminal prosecution, and outright bans on books, movies, and websites.
XBIZ EU’s Day 2: Compelling Discussion on Sex, Censorship
XBIZ EU wrapped its second day of seminars, events and business networking on Saturday at the Hilton London Metropole Hotel.
Sex & Censorship Raises £1,000 as Non-Profit
In the weeks since Sex & Censorship was established as a non-profit organization, it has reported raising more than £1,000 in donations from individual supporters.
Censorship by Money: Snuffing Out Adult Entertainment by Denial of Banking Services
Adult film stars are reportedly having their bank accounts systematically closed by JP Morgan Chase bank, for no other reason than their connection with porn
Strong Turnout at Sex & Censorship Protest in London
More than 50 people joined the Sex & Censorship’s organized protest against the Stop Porn Culture conference, including representatives from the English Collective of Prostitutes, the Sex Worker Open University and Queer Strike campaign groups.
Sex & Censorship Gears Up for Saturday's Protest
Adult entertainment performers, producers and website operators are gearing up to protest against Saturday's Stop Porn Culture U.K. Launch Conference.
FSC's Diane Duke Argues Against Censorship at U.K. Roundtable
Free Speech Coalition president Diane Duke recently argued against new U.K. censorship rules at a London roundtable sponsored by Virgin Media.
Sex & Censorship Supporting Moral Panic Film Club Event
Sex & Censorship announced today its support of the Moral Panic Film Club event, "an evening of disgust and moral panic," to be held on Feb. 7 in Hackney, East London.
Sex & Censorship Declares Tomorrow 'Day of Action'
Sex & Censorship, a U.K.-based free speech and sexual freedom group, has declared tomorrow “an online day of action” in opposition to what it perceives as the upscaling of Internet censorship in the U.K.
Sex & Censorship: Anomalies With ATVOD Speaker Lineup
Jerry Barnett, who leads SexAndCensorship.org, the U.K.-based free speech and sexual freedom group, says that anomalies in an upcoming ATVOD conference lineup have led to questions as to whether the event is about child protection or Internet censorship.
Facebook Censorship Hits The ACLU – The Epitome Of Irony
Between Google, Wikipedia, Bing, RedBook and the Ladies Home Journal, there aren't many mainstream media or tech outlets that haven't stuck an angry finger up the butt of Porn lately to supress it, take away its traffic and simply be annoying in a destructive way
Sex and Censorship: U.K.’s Porn Filter Plan
There are a number of differences between British and American attitudes towards free speech, which have governed the different cultures of the porn industry on each side of the Atlantic.