Hacker News with Generative AI: Pornography

Centrefolded: Japan's 'porn disposal' boxes phased out amid rise of the internet (theguardian.com)
For more than a decade Kazuhide Inoue has played an understated part in protecting the morals of adolescents in Fukuoka. Several times a year, the 73-year-old visits eight white “post boxes” installed in the city in western Japan, turns a key and empties their contents. On a recent visit, his haul totalled 16 books and 81 DVDs in a single day.

Social Issues, Japan, Culture, Censorship, Pornography

8 points by c420 8 days ago | 0 comments

EU's AltStore Gets First Native iOS Pornography App (macrumors.com)
In the European Union, the Digital Markets Act allows developers to distribute iOS apps through alternate app stores.

iOS, App Stores, Europe, Pornography, Law

57 points by ilamont 10 days ago | 79 comments

Turns out there's a lot of hardcore porn on Australian government websites (crikey.com.au)
Crikey looks a little different. Learn more.

Australia, Government, Pornography, Censorship

4 points by defrost 11 days ago | 0 comments

Apple responds after being forced to approve porn app on EU iPhones due to DMA (9to5mac.com)
Apple has been legally required to approve a pornography app for iPhone users in EU markets due to regulatory actions put in place by Europe’s Digital Markets Act.

Apple, EU, Pornography, Regulations

9 points by speckx 15 days ago | 6 comments

Hot Tub, the first native iPhone porn app, arrives in EU (techcrunch.com)
A native pornography app for iOS is coming to the EU via the approved alternative app store AltStore PAL, made possible by Europe’s Digital Markets Act (DMA).

Pornography, Mobile Apps, EU Regulations, Apple

10 points by chrtng 18 days ago | 0 comments

Websites hosting pornographic content must have age verification for UK users (news.sky.com)
Websites that host pornographic or other harmful content must have "robust" age verification in place for UK users by July at the latest, Ofcom has said.

Pornography, Regulation, UK, Online Safety

5 points by intunderflow 36 days ago | 2 comments

Age verification mandatory for porn sites in the UK starting July (bbc.co.uk)
All websites on which pornographic material can be found, including social media platforms, must introduce "robust" age-checking techniques such as demanding photo ID or running credit card checks for UK users by July.

Age Verification, Censorship, Online Privacy, UK Policy, Pornography

26 points by mysto 36 days ago | 34 comments

Supreme Court wrestles with explosion of online porn (thehill.com)
The Supreme Court weighed whether an explosion in online pornography requires repudiating the court’s precedents concerning sexual content as the justices Wednesday heard arguments in a challenge to Texas’s age-verification law for porn websites.

Supreme Court, Censorship, Online Content, Law, Pornography

6 points by classichasclass 37 days ago | 1 comments

Pornhub pulls out of Florida, VPN demand 'surges 1150%' (theregister.com)
Florida witnessed a massive rise in VPN demand on New Year's Day after Pornhub began prohibiting people from accessing its site from within the Sunshine State, it is claimed.

Florida, VPNs, Censorship, Privacy, Pornography

49 points by jjgreen 47 days ago | 44 comments

The huge stakes for free speech in a new Supreme Court case about porn (vox.com)
Texas asks the justices to abandon longstanding First Amendment protections for sexual speech.

Free Speech, Supreme Court, Pornography, Law, First Amendment

31 points by thunderbong 50 days ago | 8 comments

Pornhub ban now covers more than a third of US states (independent.co.uk)
More than a third of US states have now introduced restrictions for online adult content, blocking access to popular pornographic websites such as Pornhub.

Pornography, Censorship, Law, United States

8 points by gniting 50 days ago | 0 comments

French court orders blanket blocks of porn sites (politico.eu)
PARIS — The Paris Court of Appeal today ordered the complete blocking of several pornographic websites, including Xhamster and Tukif, over their failure to roll out solid age verification systems.

Pornography, France, Law, Censorship, Technology

10 points by belter 127 days ago | 2 comments

South Korea battles surge of deepfake pornography (theguardian.com)

South Korea, Deepfakes, Pornography, Technology, Law Enforcement

14 points by anigbrowl 171 days ago | 13 comments

Pornhub Is Still a Crime Scene, Even After Its Rebrand (newsweek.com)

Pornography, Rebranding, Crime

11 points by blinkedup 196 days ago | 3 comments

Indonesia bans search engine DuckDuckGo on gambling, pornography concerns (reuters.com)

Indonesia, Censorship, Search Engines, Gambling, Pornography

55 points by gsky 201 days ago | 35 comments

How the American war on porn could change the way you use the internet (bbc.com)

Internet Censorship, United States, Pornography, Internet Regulation, Social Impact

42 points by heavyset_go 211 days ago | 98 comments

Pornhub Pulls Out of Nebraska (gizmodo.com)

Pornography, Censorship, Nebraska, Law

35 points by mikece 217 days ago | 106 comments

Deepfake Porn Prompts Tech Tools and Calls for Regulations (ieee.org)

Deepfakes, Pornography, Technology, Regulation

9 points by rbanffy 221 days ago | 5 comments

Pornhub prepares to block five more states rather than check IDs (arstechnica.com)

Pornography, Legislation, Censorship, Privacy

55 points by perihelions 245 days ago | 113 comments

X has new rules that officially allow porn (theverge.com)

Social Media, Content Moderation, Censorship, Pornography

41 points by nehagup 263 days ago | 133 comments

Jail time for those caught distributing deepfake porn under new Australian laws (theguardian.com)

Deepfakes, Law, Australia, Pornography, Crime

34 points by smcin 265 days ago | 49 comments

California could require age verification to visit porn sites (calmatters.org)

California, Legislation, Pornography, Online Content

39 points by matrix87 275 days ago | 54 comments

Downranking won't stop Google's deepfake porn problem, victims say (arstechnica.com)

Google, Deepfakes, Pornography, Censorship, Victims

17 points by rntn 282 days ago | 53 comments

The UK will block online porn from April. Here's what we know (wired.com)

Online Censorship, United Kingdom, Pornography, Internet Regulations

28 points by fanf2 283 days ago | 27 comments

Texas' online porn law could shatter a First Amendment precedent (platformer.news)

Texas, Law, First Amendment, Pornography

21 points by telotortium 295 days ago | 37 comments

Supreme Court Declines to Block Texas Porn Restriction (slashdot.org)

Supreme Court, Law, Censorship, Texas, Pornography

29 points by Jimmc414 297 days ago | 11 comments