Austen ShakespeareLocal Democracy Reporting Service PA Media Reports of sexual offences have risen, attributed in part to law changes over revenge porn An increase in revenge porn incidents linked to an overall rise in reported cases of sexual offences is “concerning”, a helpline boss has said. Reported cases of sexual …
Read More »‘Tamed’ algorithms and plummeting pornography views: Impact of new online safety rules revealed one month on | Science, Climate & Tech News
Sweeping new rules designed to deal with the “total Wild West” young people were experiencing online have now been in place across the UK for a month. Ofcom’s Children’s Codes require pornography and other harmful content to be kept away from young people, either through age verification or algorithm changes. …
Read More »4Chan, Gab and Kiwi Farms want Trump’s help to dodge the Online Safety Act
After the United Kingdom began enforcing its sweeping Online Safety Act in April, British regulator Ofcom served violation notices to three notorious sites: 4chan, Gab, and Kiwi Farms, each of which risked multimillion-dollar fines. Late last week, Preston Byrne, a First Amendment lawyer representing them, struck back. Byrne announced he …
Read More »I joined for safety. Then my address was leaked and shared
Jacqui Wakefield Global Disinformation Unit, BBC World Service Getty Images/ Carlos Barquero Women who used the Tea app in the US are facing backlash after their data was leaked Sally was stalked by her ex-boyfriend. After ending their relationship, he would turn up at work – and even her friends’ …
Read More »Anger in Italy over non-consensual photos of women shared online
Facebook has removed an Italian group which saw men sharing intimate images of often unsuspecting women with thousands of people online. The Mia Moglie group, which translates to My Wife in English, had around 32,000 members before it was shut down this week. Its discovery has prompted outrage among Italians …
Read More »‘Basic Instinct’ writer taking ‘anti-woke’ approach in reboot to iconic thriller
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Catherine Tramell will be at it again. Joe Eszterhas, 80, who wrote the 1992 erotic thriller “Basic Instinct,” is now writing a reboot to the iconic, controversial movie that is expected to be “anti-woke,” after signing a deal with Amazon MGM, according …
Read More »Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told
Charlotte Sexton BBC Newsnight Getty Images The government needs to stop children using virtual private networks (VPNs) to bypass age checks on porn sites, the children’s commissioner for England has said. Dame Rachel de Souza told BBC Newsnight it was “absolutely a loophole that needs closing” and called for age …
Read More »TikTok and Instagram accused of targeting teens with suicide and self-harm content | UK News
TikTok and Instagram have been accused of targeting teenagers with suicide and self-harm content – at a higher rate than two years ago. The Molly Rose Foundation – set up by Ian Russell after his 14-year-old daughter took her own life after viewing harmful content on social media – commissioned …
Read More »Kirkcaldy man jailed for ‘appalling’ abuse and rape of girls
A 34-year-old man has been jailed for 10 years after being convicted of an “appalling catalogue” of abuse and rapes of two teenage girls. Michael McRobie, of Kirkcaldy, struck one of the girls with a whip during his attacks on her, the High Court in Edinburgh. Judge Michael O’Grady KC …
Read More »Supreme Court opens door to social media age-gating in US
The Supreme Court will let Mississippi’s social media age verification law take effect while the case is being argued in court. In an unsigned ruling on Thursday, the court declined to block the law after an emergency petition from trade association NetChoice. The order offers no explanation, but in a …
Read More »Consumer safety groups are demanding an FTC investigation into Grok’s ‘Spicy’ mode
A new letter to the Federal Trade Commission, and US attorneys general for all 50 states and the District of Columbia, calls for an urgent investigation into Elon Musk’s Grok — especially its new “Imagine” tool for AI-generated image and video. Today’s letter was spearheaded by the Consumer Federation of …
Read More »Leonardo DiCaprio regrets not taking this one Hollywood role
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Leonardo DiCaprio may have one of the most celebrated careers in Hollywood – but even the Oscar winner admits he has regrets. During a conversation for Esquire with acclaimed filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson, DiCaprio opened up about the one missed role that …
Read More »Elon Musk’s gangster tech regulation comes for Apple
Elon Musk is calling in another return on his investment in American politics: he’s threatening Apple with a lawsuit because neither X nor xAI’s Grok have been recommended on the iOS App Store. How serious this threat is — well, that’s hard to say, as it was posted between Grok-generated …
Read More »Firm apologises for saying it would not process LGBTQ+ payments
Stripe has apologised after staff wrongly said it would no longer process the payments of LGBTQ+ related content or goods. The firm, which millions of global businesses rely on for their online transactions, has come under fire for being one of several payment processors to not allow itself to be …
Read More »Former Stoke-on-Trent doctor jailed over child sex offences
Richard Price BBC News, West Midlands Staffordshire Police Matthew Isles was jailed for three years and 10 months, at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court A former hospital consultant who had more than 90,000 images of children has been jailed for more than three years. Dr Matthew Isles, who worked as an ear, …
Read More »Cookstown man sentenced for rape of nine-year-old girl
A man convicted of multiple offences including raping a nine-year old girl has been handed a 13-year sentence. The judge told Jason Harkness, 31, of Drum Road, Cookstown, that despite his continued claims of innocence, the offences he committed indicated he had a “deviant sexual interest in children”. Harkness was …
Read More »Porn site traffic plummets as UK age verification rules enforced
The amount of people in the UK visiting the most popular pornography sites has decreased after new age verification rules came into place, new figures indicate. Data analytics firm Similarweb said leading adult site Pornhub lost more than one million visitors in just two weeks. Pornhub and other major adult …
Read More »Donna D’Errico says Playboy rejected her offer for new photo shoot
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Donna D’Errico is in the best shape of her life and isn’t afraid to show off her hard work. After the 30th anniversary of her debut on the cover of Playboy, D’Errico figured she’d reach out to the publication to see if …
Read More »What’s a smut peddler to do these days?
In the aftermath of itch.io pulling the sale of over 20,000 pages of adult content, the creators of that work are left feeling betrayed, exhausted, and fearful. The number of platforms that permit the sale of adult material is shrinking, and there’s no guarantee the ones that remain will still …
Read More »Pornographic Taylor Swift deepfakes generated by Musk’s Grok AI
Imran Rahman-Jones Technology reporter Getty Images Elon Musk’s AI video generator has been accused of making “a deliberate choice” to create sexually explicit clips of Taylor Swift without prompting, says an expert in online abuse. “This is not misogyny by accident, it is by design,” said Clare McGlynn, a law …
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