I’ll let BBC tell this story, what little is known anyway… Wow, 4chan is effective. Snip: Adult video-sharing list leaked from law firm The personal details of thousands of Sky broadband customers have been leaked on to the internet, alongside a list of pornographic movies they are alleged to have shared online. The list, seen…
Hacker Quarterly2600 has compiled the most complete list of blacklisted words that Google’s new “feature” Google Instant refuses to include or recognize. It’s being called a “blacklist” across the internet pretty much universally. (Mind you, this is different than SafeSearch and standard autofill, which I think work in a fairly unbiased way). I found this…
If I was a local sex columnist (ahem), this would be a great opportunity for me to showcase just how much more fun tech conference attendees have in San Francisco, as opposed to, say, other major cities. Macworld *used* to be a goldmine for sexy geeks and hot ‘n nerdy hookups, but then Mr. Jobs…
Once in a while, one of our treasured sex culture icons looks at a situation, sizes it up — and delivers a piece of writing that knocks it out of the park. That’s exactly what Susie Bright just did with her new blog post, Susie’s Post-Mortem on Craig’s List Sex Ads. Here’s a snip —…
The Google Tech Talk I gave on sex on the Internet and sexual privacy online has been viewed 1,521,951 times. (I’ve presented two, at their invitation.) CINE + OCTO = BOO reports* that “Google Instant launched today, and already folks have noticed that some searches fail to yield the “instant” treatment. Yep, naughty searches get…
Today Apple launched their new music social network Ping (basically a clone of Last.fm), and in Apple’s promotional image for the new feature, they very obviously removed a thread of Tweets from Lady Gaga’s timeline where she clearly spoke out celebrating being pro-gay, about California’s anti-gay marriage legislation, Prop 8. Seriously. Apple, we see you.…
If you’re tired of me being agitated about the proposed .XXX domain extension, then you can skip this post (and know that when the ICANN comment period is over this month I will stop bugging you to use this text to email ICANN to tell them that .XXX = OMGWTFBBQ). But I do want to…
UPDATE 09.01.10: The mainstream adult industry is making its opposition to .XXX loud and clear at Dot-XXX Opposition (with John Stagliano!) /update I wrote this up last night on my tech blog Techyum in Comment Period Now Open on .XXX – Make Your Voice Heard, in part because I wanted to give people a linking…
It’s an end-of-the-day story, but today attorneys general from 17 US states sent a joint letter demanding that Craigslist remove its Adult Services section “because the website cannot adequately block potentially illegal ads promoting prostitution and child trafficking.” NPR reports in Craigslist Asked To Drop Erotic Services Ads, (…) “No amount of money, however, can…
I’m still reeling from the way my talk at Gnomedex came out; it was pretty much an unplanned 20 minutes, with the goal of talking about… well, exactly what I ended up talking about. But I just kind of let go… And to my amazement, I got a standing ovation at Gnomedex. In the ten…