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According to Florida news websites, the webmaster of Now That’s Fucked Up has made bail on his obscenity charges:
Chris Wilson, the operator of a controversial porn Web site, was released from the Polk County Jail after his parents put up $30,100 to arrange his bail.
Wilson operated an adult Web site out of his Lakeland apartment. […]
In the second story of its kind this week, an adult website has been raided by law enforcement. In this case, the site was a story site called “Red Rose Stories”. The webmaster of the site posted a message on his homepage saying that the FBI had entered his home when he was not at […]
The studios of porn bad boy Max Hardcore were raided by the FBI this week. Apparently the feds were looking to gather evidence for another obscenity charge against Hardcore. According to AVN:
Max Hardcore’s studio, Max World Entertainment, was raided approximately 10 a.m. on Wednesday by FBI agents searching for five titles being investigated for obscenity.
This […]
From today’s Washington Post:
The FBI is joining the Bush administration’s War on Porn. And it’s looking for a few good agents.
The new squad will divert eight agents, a supervisor and assorted support staff to gather evidence against “manufacturers and purveyors” of pornography — not the kind exploiting children, but the kind that depicts, and is […]
Very sad news about an internet porn legend, and long time free speech supporter, from RAME:
Peter van Aarle, curator of the Internet Adult Film Database (IAFD) and co-founder of rec.arts.movies erotica (RAME), passed away on Sunday, September 18, 2005, after suffering a heart attack at his home in The Hague, Holland. He was 42. Details […]
It’s been a while since I updated, so I wanted to make a quick comment on recent free speech issues. In the last few weeks, two Democrats have joined the usual right wing suspects in launching attacks on the free speech rights of the American people:
Hillary Clinton: Hillary has been on a rampage lately against […]
Sam Sugar over at the SugarBank blog has an article about the approval of the .xxx domain extension and how bad it will be for those who support free speech. He suggests, as many other have, that a .kids domain would be a much better solution.
Here is a preview of what Sam and many in […]
A movie by highly acclaimed director Gregg Araki is under attack by a religious anti-free speech group who says they think the movie might be illegal. They want the U.S. Congress to investigate the indie art film, which tackles issue of teenage sexual abuse and homosexuality. AVN has an article on the controversy here.
Critic Ted […]
Republicans and Democrats coming together to fight for free speech? That’s what this artice from Variety says:
A new interest group in the broadcast indecency debate plans to announce its presence Wednesday by releasing results of a national survey showing that nearly 80% of Americans prefer parental responsibility over governmental regulation when it comes to protecting […]
From the anti-free speech files comes this article about the Catholic Church trying to get a website shut down because it insults the new pope:
Rome judicial authorities sought a temporary injunction on Friday against an Internet site which carried doctored photographs of Pope Benedict dressed in a Nazi uniform.
Rome investigating magistrate Salavtore Vitello said in […]