Twitter’s new ‘statuses’ feature is flooded with hardcore porn
Twitter’s new ‘statuses’ function, which it began testing last week (beginning July 25, 2022), has led to some users of the social media site having their…
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Apple’s taking its nudity-blurring iPhone feature global with iOS 16
Apple is set for a global rollout of an iPhone function that detects nude images and blurs them, if the phone’s parental control settings are enabled….
Scam loan apps sent fake nude photos to victims’ family members
Scam loan apps have sent faked nude images of victims to their family members, as part of harassment and doxxing campaigns against them, intended to pressure…
‘Disabled people in porn are important’: Meet disability activist Andrew Gurza
Andrew Gurza’s path towards activism solidified about seven years ago, when he had a vibrating penis sleeve device on his genitals and found that he couldn’t…
Porn site ads are being used to spread news about Russia’s war against Ukraine
A network of campaigners supporting Ukraine against Russia’s invasion of the country have been battling Vladimir Putin’s propaganda machine with the help of porn site adverts….
Chinese researchers develop wearable device that triggers ‘porn alarm’
Chinese researchers have developed a head-bound device that detects when the wearer is watching pornography, then triggers an alarm, in a move the researchers say could…
TikTok censored LGBTQ-related words in Germany
TikTok’s content-blocking system in Germany censored LGBTQI-related words, as well as phrases deemed sensitive by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), according to a new report. The…
xHamster blocked in Germany, stoking fears of further porn censorship
xHamster has been blocked in Germany by the country’s main internet service providers (ISPs), after the country’s Commission for Youth Media Protection ruled that the site…
Deepfake porn fears: AI-generated faces as realistic as real faces, research finds
Researchers studying images of faces created by artificial intelligence (AI) have called for new guidelines in the face of the potential misuse of the technology to…
Age Verification: UK government takes aim at social media platforms hosting porn
A plan to force any website that “publish or place” porn content —including social media services— to conduct user age checks is being newly-pushed by the…
Meta introduces Personal Boundary feature, following VR ‘gang rape’ claim
Meta has launched a Personal Boundary function for its nascent virtual reality (VR) social platform Horizon Worlds, following reports suggesting that it had already turned into…
Almost every big Android porn-blocking app mistakenly censors sex-ed and LGBT+ content
The most popular Android porn-blocking parental control apps routinely mistakenly block US and UK government-approved sexual health and LGBT+ websites, according to new research. A virtual…
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