PURCHASE, N.Y. — Mastercard announced new restrictions for adult content and the payment transactions required for premium content and subscription services. As YNOT reported yesterday, John Verdeschi, the company’s Senior VP of Franchise Customer Engagement &...

AUSTIN — The Republican-dominated state legislature in Texas successfully amended House Bill (HB) 5, a proposal to expand rural broadband access throughout the state. A seemingly uncontroversial bill up until last week now is a vehicle for social conservative Republicans in the...

WASHINGTON — Conservative Justice Clarence Thomas of the United States Supreme Court keeps pushing for Section 230 reform and to crack down on large technology companies. The high court this week dismissed as moot a lower court ruling that former Republican President Donald Trump...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Arizona, wrote a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland asking that the Justice Department investigate the parent company of OnlyFans for promoting and profiting from ‘online prostitution.’ Now, Gosar wants Attorney General...

SALT LAKE CITY – Grammy award-winning artist Cardi B took to social media to criticize the Utah governor and state legislature for passing House Bill (HB) 72. HB 72 was signed by Republican Gov. Spencer Cox last month in a bid to regulate access to porn on every new mobile device...

Editor’s Note: This post is the sixth in a series by YNOT’s LynseyG that gives an overview of the history of anti-porn sentiment in America. Part one provided an overview, part two covered anti-porn crusader Charles Keating, part three examined the role of feminist author Andrea...

SALT LAKE CITY — In what appears to be the most invasive violation of constitutional rights in several years, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox signed House Bill (HB) 72 into law mandating that every cell phone and tablet sold in the state must have preinstalled porn filtering software. The...

WASHINGTON — Congress is developing several proposals to overhaul technology platform liability shields outlined under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996. Sens. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, and John Thune, R-South Dakota, reintroduced the Platform Accountability and...

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah’s state legislature ended its annual session, recently. YNOT has covered, extensively, the evolution of House Bill (HB) 72 — a proposal that would mandate every single mobile phone and tablet sold in Utah to come preinstalled with porn filtering software as...

Editor’s Note: This post is the fourth in a series by YNOT’s LynseyG that gives an overview of the history of anti-porn sentiment in America. Part one provided an overview, part two covered anti-porn crusader Charles Keating and part three examined the role of feminist author...