Tag: censorship
The (Flimsy) Legal Arguments Used to Justify Art Censorship
Censorship rarely comes labelled as such. Instead, institutions often twist themselves to find any legal justification to defend decisions to silence artists and suppress...
First Tucker Carlson, now Ted Cruz: Conservatives are talking about an ‘unbelievably dangerous’ precedent being set by the FCC chair | Fortune
In the aftermath of Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show suspension, conservative politicians and media personalities are sounding the alarm on free speech.
Amid pressure from the...
Cancel Culture Comes for Artists Who Posted About Charlie Kirk’s Death
Media pundits, journalists, and academics, including MSNBC commentator Matthew Dowd, have also been fired or targeted over their comments about Kirk. Executives from Comcast,...
Google Will Use AI to Guess People’s Ages Based on Search History
Last week, the United Kingdom began requiring residents to verify their ages before accessing online pornography and other adult content, all in the name...
Itch.io Is Restoring NSFW Games—as Long as They’re Free
On Thursday, indie gaming platform Itch.io began re-indexing some of the adult content it had delisted last month amid pressure from conservative groups and...
Substack accidentally sent push alerts promoting a Nazi publication
It was easy to view Substack's 2023 Nazi controversy as a kicked can that could turn up again. Well, white supremacist content led to...
Age Verification Laws Send VPN Use Soaring—and Threaten the Open Internet
After the United Kingdom’s Online Safety Act went into effect on Friday, requiring porn platforms and other adult content sites to implement user age...
Paramount Has a $1.5 Billion ‘South Park’ Problem
“Right-wing humorists, the Joe Rogans and Andrew Schulzes of the world, they're the ones occupying this offensive free speech space. And so anything that...
Steam and Itch.io Are Pulling ‘Porn’ Games. Critics Say It’s a Slippery Slope to More Censorship
Late in the evening on July 23, developers with games tagged as NSFW on itch.io, a digital marketplace, began to notice something strange. Their...