If we want to make sure children are safe online, let's stop them watching porn.
Does that sound like a sensible proposal? Or even a realistic one? While, on reflection, such a proposal seems a...
Category: Internet platforms
Tumblr’s adult content ban is an admission of defeat
In a blog post yesterday in which Tumblr announced that it would ban adult content from the site come December 17, it took pains to point out "something that should not be confused with today’s...
Should we Kik anonymous messaging to the curb?
Kik is a messaging app launched by Canadian company Kik Interactive in 2010. It is free of monetary cost to users, but is not a basement operation; Kik Interactive has received over $120 million...
Defending Lolita from censorship
Lolita was never officially banned in the United States, although it was banned in France where it was first published in 1955, and in several other countries. Yet today, although the novel...
FOSTA and the alt-right are censoring speech about child protection
The proponents of the anti-trafficking law FOSTA have claimed (falsely) that since passage of the law there has been a 90% fall in the number of sex advertisements published online. But whatever...
Child protection and the limits of censorship
It’s unusual for a civil liberties organization — which Prostasia is — to be calling for censorship. But we are also, and first and...