Law and Politics
UK ‘Porn Subsidies’ Help Reduce Unemployment
LONDON – The UK government is paying subsidies to massage parlors, porn film producers and strip clubs that hire unemployed […]
UK MPs: ‘Prosecute Porn Sites under Obscenity Laws’
LONDON – Members of the British Parliament have called for the criminal prosecution of adult websites that do not employ […]
UK Censorship Roundtable Includes American Perspective
LONDON – Internet filters are only part of the solution to keeping children safe online. That was the general consensus […]
Popular Prof Sacked over ‘Accidental Porn’
ZURICH, Switzerland – A popular professor at a Zurich business school has been suspended after accidentally broadcasting porn from an […]
Who’s Policing the Police?
LONDON – Four members of an elite UK security team will not face criminal charges for sharing “extreme” pornography on […]
UK ISPs Balk at Policing Online Gambling
LONDON – Although they already filter legal pornography from the web by default, internet service providers in the UK do not […]
Israel’s Knesset Criminalizes Revenge Porn
JERUSALEM – Acting with the unanimous vote of the 31 members present, Israel’s Knesset plenum on Monday approved a law […]
Berlusconi Appeals Underage Sex Conviction
ROME – Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Thursday filed an appeal of his mid-2013 conviction for paying an […]
UK Filters Block MP’s Site, but Not Porn
LONDON – Everyone should have seen this coming: A recent test shows the UK’s new mandatory ISP-level filtering is doing […]
German ‘Sex Party’ Organizers Face Tax-evasion Charges
FRANKFURT, Germany – German authorities are investigating a middle-aged, married couple they claim failed to pay an estimated 1 million […]
