CANOGA Park, CA — On Wednesday April 25th, Colorado Federal District Court Judge Walker Miller held a status conference between the Free Speech Coalition 2257 legal team and attorneys representing the U.S. government in the case FSC v. Gonzales, the FSC announced in a press...

WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) will hold public hearings on May 9th to discuss the proposed World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Broadcast Treaty, a controversial proposal that has been strongly criticized by digital rights watchdog...

CHINA — It sounds like a submissive man’s fantasy world: a village where women rule, men obey, and transgressions are promptly punished. If Chinese tourist authorities have their way, this dream will become a reality — and make locals prosperous as well as...

CANOGA PARK, CA — The Free Speech Coalition (FSC) announced today that the one-day fundraising event FreedomStreams ’07, held this year on April 15th, raised close to $20,000 for the FSC Legal Defense Fund.During the one day event, participating adult studios donate their...

SACRAMENTO, CA — In a press release issued Wednesday evening, the Free Speech Coalition states that Monday’s 10th annual Celebrate Free Speech Lobbying Day event was a great success, but adds that more attendees from within the industry are needed for next year’s...

CHINA — Chinese state television reported this week that the nation’s President, Hu Jintao, has initiated a campaign to cleanse the internet of “unhealthy” content and to use it as a means to promote Communist Party policy, according to the state-run Xinhua news...

LOS ANGELES, CA — Nobody knows the troubles that poor, misunderstood, and doubtlessly underappreciated Girls Gone Wild multi millionaire Joe Francis has endured for his softcore art. Tax evasion, 2257 violations, prison bribes, stashed sleeping pills, underage performers,...

SAN MATEO, CA — KinderStart.com, the “little search engine for parents of children zero to seven,” has filed an appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in its lawsuit against Google Inc, KinderStart announced in a press release issued Wednesday.Although...

WASHINGTON, DC — The full, current text of the Cyber Safety for Kids Act of 2007, as introduced in the Senate, has been made available on the Library of Congress (LOC) website, www.thomas.loc.gov.Sponsored by Senators Max Baucus (D-MT) and Mark Pryor (D-AR), the latest...

BLACKSBURG, VA — Dr. Judith Reisman, long time anti-porn crusader and president of The Institute for Media Education, is no stranger to making controversial comments, especially asserting a causal link between the viewing of pornography and the committing of violent...