Bill O’Reilly’s steamy War on PornFox News presenter Bill O’Reilly fights the good fight in the culture wars with a segment about the evils of porn on YouTube. With lots and lots of visual examples, of course. It’s research.
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Green Dam takes China’s net censorship to scary new level
The Chinese government announced a new initiative to include software on ever PC sold in China that blocks porn. But problems with the software range from the silly to the absolutely terrifying.
Germany’s online cop on the beat
German authorities are planning a system of “online emergency telephones” for those that stumble across egregious content online.
You don’t have to be Humbert Humbert to see child sexualisation
The uncovering of hard evidence that David Jones set out to sexualise children in its advertising makes monkeys out of the small band of media academics who leapt to the defence of the retailer.
Porn meets embroidery
Needlework is no longer for the faint hearted. Women — and some men — are mixing crafts and politics with a dash of naughty fun. Dubbed ‘craftivists’, their art is about “bucking the system” reports Meg Mundell.
Is pornography the new tobacco?
Society’s acceptance of widespread pornography appears very nearly bulletproof — every bit as bulletproof, in fact, as the prevailing laissez-faire public view of smoking did in 1963.
Conroy: the slimy tentacles of Howard’s internet
Unlike the Howard Government, Labor has vowed to protect every orifice on every citizen, writes Fake Stephen Conroy.
Victoria’s new police commissioner is no angel
Simon Overland is not perfect, despite the hagiographic profiles of him in today’s media, writes Greg Barns.
What is it about Bob Debus and Japanese p-rn?
It appears the dead hand of Phillip Ruddock still grips free speech in Australia — with some help from South Australia’s Attorney-General, writes Bernard Keane.
Twitter: enabling the new global rubberneckers
We can watch as much bushfire disaster p-rn as we want without stirring from home, writes Stilgherrian.
Pictures of The Simpsons having it off isn’t a threat to society
Do the images of fictional cartoon characters who only resemble real life humans in a tenuous way represent a threat to society? Asks Greg Barns.
What’s all the fuss? It’s just hardcore p-rn
The same media outlets which regularly work themselves up into a self righteous frenzy over Miley Cyrus-style inappropriateness don’t mind giving the p-rn industry an easy ride on the side, writes Neil Walker.
Senators caught up in the Fielding Filth Filter
Steve Fielding is obsessed with pornography and now he has managed to impose the views of his bizarre monotheistic cult on other Senators and their staff, reports Bernard Keane.
