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The Anti-Porn Crusade That Censored Steam and Itch.io Started 30 Years Ago

August 4, 2025

Ted Litchfield, a journalist at PC Gamer, noted that the “nearly 500 other rape and incest games” figure Collective Shout cites in its own timeline of the campaign doesn’t make…

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Age Verification Laws Send VPN Use Soaring—and Threaten the Open Internet

July 30, 2025

A law requiring UK internet users to verify their age to access adult content has led to a huge surge in VPN downloads—and has experts worried about the future of…

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Microsoft plans to bring Xbox age verification to countries outside of the UK

July 30, 2025

Microsoft is implementing an age verification system on Xbox accounts to comply with the UK's Online Safety Act, and in a new blog post announcing the move, the company suggests…

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Spotify Is Forcing Users to Undergo Face Scanning to Access Explicit Content

July 30, 2025

Spotify is requiring users in the UK to verify they’re over 18 to view "certain age restricted content," and users are reporting seeing a popup on Spotify to verify their…

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ADL-Backed Bipartisan Bill Threatens to Censor Israel Criticism on Social Media

July 28, 2025

The bill’s lead sponsors described it as part of an effort to prevent antisemitic hate. But their comments during a press conference on the measure suggest it will also target…

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The comic that cost this writer his life

July 23, 2025

Héctor Germán Oesterheld

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Australian anti-porn group claims responsibility for Steam’s new censorship rules in victory against ‘porn sick brain rotted pedo gamer fetishists’, and things only get weirder from there

July 22, 2025

Collective Shout, an Australian anti-pornography group, has claimed credit for Steam's recent removal of a large number of sexually explicit games and new, stricter moderation guidelines regarding such material. In…

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Australian deported from US says he was ‘targeted’ due to writing on pro-Palestine student protests

June 15, 2025

An Australian man who was detained upon arrival at Los Angeles airport and deported back to Melbourne says United States border officials told him it was due to his writing…

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mahmoud khalil

April 3, 2025

and the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952

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Hungary bans Pride events and plans to use facial recognition to target attenders

March 19, 2025

MPs in Hungary have voted to ban Pride events and allow authorities to use facial recognition software to identify attenders and potentially fine them, in what Amnesty International has described…

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