Tag archive: pornography

If you have been trying to visit an Apple iPhone website, but keep getting sent to porn sites Apple has good news for you. Apple is now the proud owner of seven domain names that make use of the term “iPhone” and various porn references. The eight domains in questions redirect mobile users to a porn website. Here is the full list of the domains in question: iphonecamforce.com iphonecam4s.com iphoneporn4s.com iphonesex4s.com iphonexxxforce.com… Read More

The four largest Internet service providers in the UK will soon allow customers to block all pornography, or to purposefully choose to see the sexually explicit material, reports the Guardian. The controversial move is part of the government's attempts to cut down on Internet pornography. UK Prime Minister David Cameron will announce the new guidelines during meetings with the Mother's Union, which has launched a mission earlier… Read More

The Wall Street Journal tapped into its naughty side today with a feature about how the Internet is effectively killing off “pornography” provided by cable and satellite television service providers. Because pornography is so readily available for free online, reports WSJ's Sam Schechner and Jessica E. Vascellaro, fewer customers are subscribing to video-on-demand and pay-per-view adult content. While this fact likely seems… Read More

It's no secret: One of the primary things people do online is look for pornography. Heck, you probably landed on this article entirely by accident, while trying to find pictures of things that are illegal in six states. Well, thanks to the newly established “.xxx” top level domain, you will soon be able to search for whatever your loins desire, without any pesky SFW content muddling the mix: According to The Register, ICM… Read More

Tunisia might be a fledgling democracy after President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali stepped down in January following mass demonstrations and riots, but the country is still trying to find a balance between the power of modern technology and traditional values. According to Tunisian media, a court has ordered the Tunisian Internet Agency to block access too all sites with pornographic and adult content, following a lawsuit that argued the sites… Read More

UK Culture Minister Ed Vaizey has stepped into the ages-old debate about online pornography, saying in an interview with the Sunday Times that the UK government is floating a proposal that ISPs implement an age-verification scheme to block access to adult material “at source.” The idea would be to block access to adult materials to individuals unless they're verified by ISPs as being old enough to access them. Vaizey framed… Read More

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers– the people responsible for top level domains (think .com, .gov, and .ca)– have thrown about the idea of an extension for pornographic websites for the better part of a decade.  More recently, the proposal has been picking up steam again, with staunch proponents as well as firm opposition.  ICANN seeemd to be moving forward with the extension by officially registering .xxx with… Read More

It's a maxim of technology: Invent the newest gadget and the porn industry will find a way to cash in. So when Apple Inc. launched the iPhone 4 and its FaceTime videoconference feature, it didn't take long for adult-entertainment companies to develop video-sex chat services and start hiring workers through Craigslist. With more than 3 million of the phones already sold, the adult industry stands to make big money on this new way to… Read More

It can be tough to get your name out when you are a lowly state senator. Sometimes you need a platform to build on, sometimes you just need the support of the right people. Or you can always go the opposite direction and get caught watching porn during a session of the senate and become an Internet sensation. That is the path less travelled that Florida State Senator Mike Bennett is on, after the Sunshine State News caught him on camera… Read More

After discovering instances of pornographic material, Fox News has contacted donors of Wikipedia and warned them that there is explicit content on the website.  The FBI has been contacted as well. Since Fox’s report, Wikipedia has begun to purge thousands of images from its website. The report from Fox cited several topics that included pornographic materials, including one search for “nude children”, which led them to pictures of child… Read More

In the 1990s dialup internet spread across the country and with it came the jump of pornography into the digital realm.  As porn was quickly recognized to be among the most popular and most visited forms of internet content, adult sites quickly drew opportunist cyber criminals who hid trojans and other viruses that would infect the computers of unsuspecting surfers. Among the most popular schemes were so-called dialers.  Dialers would infect… Read More

The Chinese government has launched yet another attack against internet pornography, with officials expecting the anti-porn program to last until the end of May 2010. To help lead the way, WAP site registration will have to undergo additional scrutiny, with each site's registration information verified before it goes live. Furthermore, the government also will go beyond WAP sites, and will also target third-party payment companies, and… Read More

Chinese state media has announced that it has shut down a total of 91 Web sites since last Thursday for offering pornography and other vulgar content. The closed sites apparently include the well-known political blog Bullog.cn, which played host to a number of prominent Chinese bloggers, including signatories of the pro-democracy “08 Charter” calling for open elections and freedom of expression in China. The Chinese crackdown… Read More

A new study conducted by University of New Hampshire researchers and published in the current issue of Pediatrics finds that 42 percent of Internet users aged 10 to 17 years had seen online pornography in the previous 12 months—but that full two thirds of those kids stumbled onto the material by accident. The study surveyed 1,500 Internet users between the ages of 10 and 17 between March and June 2005, with the consent of the… Read More