Internet Porn Censorship

Hundreds of porn performers who were lied to about the extent of distribution have been awarded the rights to the videos and millions of dollars in damages.

The sites, GirlsDoPorn and GirlsDoToys, had been the subject of a long-running legal battle. The US Department of Justice has ruled that rights to videos and images produced by the now-defunct sites belong to the women.

More than 400 performers can now ask for the online footage to be removed or else to receive the proceeds from continued availability. The performers are now likely to enforce notices ordering the firms, including Pornhub and Google, to take down the material.

GirlsDoPorn producer Ruben Andre Garcia was sentenced in the summer to 20 years in federal prison for coercing women into appearing in sex videos.

The city of Vienna is taking an offbeat approach to the social media censorship of art and has turned to using the adults-only online platform OnlyFans to put its most explicit artworks on full display.

The tourism board for the Austrian capital is now presenting art from four of Vienna's most revered museums, including the Albertina Museum and the Leopold Museum, on the adults-only platform in response to the blocking of some artistic content containing nudity on social media.

In July, the Albertina Museum's TikTok account was suspended -- and later blocked -- for displaying works by the Japanese artist and photographer Nobuyoshi Araki that showed a partially-obscured breast. Back in 2019, Instagram said that a painting by the legendary Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens violated its community guidelines. Earlier this year, when the Leopold Museum marked its 20th anniversary, a video uploaded to Facebook and Instagram which contained work by Koloman Moser was rejected because it was flagged as potentially pornographic by the platforms.

Now, these works and more of Vienna's 18+ content can be found on full, unfiltered display on OnlyFans -- a subscription-based website best known as a platform for sharing and viewing pornographic content.

A French court on Friday, has rejected a claim brought by two children's campaigns calling for the blocking of major porn websites in France.

The judge rejected the claim because the court facing time pressures had not been able to hear arguments from the sites' publishers.

The anti-porn campaigners had hoped for the blocking of nine top porn sites, including PornHub and Xvideos.

One of the ISPs being asked to censor the porn, Orange, noted that it already offered tools such as parental controls to limit children's access to online pornography.

Samuel Comblez of e-Enfance, one of the children's campaigners, said: It's not a completely lost battle, adding that it was now examining other ways to restrict access to the sites.

Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp were offline for several hours on October 4th, 2021.

Starting at about 12pm Eastern Time, Pornhub's traffic increased by as much as +10.5%, which equals about half a million additional users during each hour that Facebook's services were down.

Pornhub's statisticians found similar traffic increases during another Facebook & Instagram Outage in March of 2019.

Thai OnlyFans creators are sweating right now due to a miserable police clamp down on them for making explicit content.

Nong Khai Nao (Miss Bad Egg), the most well-known of Thai creators, was arrested on Monday night along with her boyfriend. Nong Khai Nao allegedly raked in, at her peak, nearly B1 million in three months, but has now quit OnlyFans to focus on her YouTube content instead.

Their arrest has sparked a lot of debate regarding Thai police priorities for there are more pressing issues and crimes out there, and whether creating X-rated content on OnlyFans should be considered illegal, to begin with.

Lt Gen Kanchai Khlaikhleung, chief of the Cyber Crime Investigation Bureau, said that he is unfazed by the criticism as his bureau is only doing its duty.In order to uphold the good morale of Thailand and out of concern on its impact on the younger generations, he said that he couldn't turn a blind eye.