If there’s one thing on which Republicans and Democrats can agree, it’s that free speech is a great and noble thing – as long as they like what someone has to say and it’s not something negative about them. When properly viewed within this context, many things which might...

Remember all those resolutions passed by state legislatures declaring porn to be a "public health hazard"? YNOT's Ben Suroeste thinks they look just a *little* inflated in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic...

When Rhode Island State Rep. Grace Diaz decided to briefly champion a bill called the "Stop Guilt by Association Act" she didn't know how ironic that choice would prove to be -- because she hadn't a clue who the bill's author was, or how many other failed bills originated with him.

At first, Ben Suroeste thought Utah's idea of having government-mandated warning labels on porn was a bad idea. Upon further reflection, he's realized we don't just need warnings on porn -- we need them on everything potentially harmful, just in case.

Joe Biden says Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act "immediately should be revoked," but like many other critics of Section 230, Biden seems confused and unclear about what Section 230 says, what it protects and what it doesn't.

Ben Suroeste takes a look back at the best, meanest, least true and most unfair YNOT WTF! stories of the last decade -- a decade filled with secrets revealed, press releases mangled, awards granted, trade shows held in questionable locales and plenty of other "facts" bound to...

Let’s say you’re a socially conservative state legislator (or, more to the point, a legislator who represents a district packed with social conservatives) and you want to cook up some regulations designed to make it harder for people to sell, buy, or consume adult entertainment...

As he watches the civil lawsuit filed against GirlsDoPorn.com and its operators play out -- and waits for the criminal prosecution of those same people to begin -- Ben Suroeste keeps having a question pop into his head: How stupid are these guys? Before you answer that question,...

Last week, I read that the UK’s idea to make porn sites adopt age verification was dead. As it turns out though, it seems to be merely mostly dead, to borrow a line from The Princess Bride. So, what’s the deal, you ask? According to Matt Warman, who holds the job of...

In its apparent ongoing quest to copy the cyber-security and online content policies of the United Kingdom, Australia is weighing the merits of establishing an online age-verification requirement for people who visit adult sites, similar to an existing requirement for those who...