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🥩himbo discourse🥩 @internetmaggie.com · Mar 14

In 2025 the Internet is absolutely packed with free porn... but how did we get here?

Learn how content creators, algorithms, media amplification and moralizing policy have shaped the state of 🌽 today:

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Porn, Platforms & Sex Panic

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🥩himbo discourse🥩 @internetmaggie.com · 16h

resist the surveillance state! Tune in here: sencanada.ca/en/committee...

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🥩himbo discourse🥩 @internetmaggie.com · 16h

Hey Canadians! Age-verification laws are looming in 🇨🇦

if Bill S-209 passes in it's current form, you'll need to register in a govt. mandated database to watch p🍑rn in Canada

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🥩himbo discourse🥩 @internetmaggie.com · 18h

Canadian 🌽 folks! The 🇨🇦 senate is currently hearing feedback on Bill S-209: An Act to restrict young persons’ online access to p0rnographic material

If you care about sexual expression, privacy, or online surveillance - tune in NOW:

sencanada.ca/en/committee...

Meetings #6 - Standing Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs (45th Parliament, 1st Session)

Standing Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs

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🥩himbo discourse🥩 @internetmaggie.com · 18h

Canadian porn folks! The 🇨🇦 senate is currently hearing feedback on Bill S-209: An Act to restrict young persons’ online access to pornographic material

If you care about sexual expression, privacy, or online surveillance - tune in NOW:

sencanada.ca/en/committee...

Meetings #6 - Standing Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs (45th Parliament, 1st Session)

Standing Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 2d

"If history teaches us anything, these projects of moral and social purity are doomed to fail... But the costs of these panics—censorship, stigma, surveillance and state-sanctioned discrimination and violence—are borne by real people whose freedoms and dignities are stripped in the process."

Michael McGrady Jr 🏳️‍🌈🫡 @mdmcjr.press · 2d

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Bigotry rebranded as moral purity.

A History of Gendered Censorship and the Costs of Faith-Based ‘Porn’ Panics - TheHumanist.com

Bigotry rebranded as moral purity.

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🥩himbo discourse🥩 @internetmaggie.com · 14d

Michigan’s dystopian ‘Anticorruption of Public Morals Act’ would criminalize all porn and depictions of Trans people online 🚫

From Eco’s Classic Signs of Fascism: stoke fear of difference + limit access to (sexual) knowledge to prevent critical reasoning or resistance

www.them.us/story/michig...

Michigan GOP Proposes Bill Banning Porn and Depictions of Trans People

The law would force internet providers to implement “mandatory filtering technology.”

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 15d

The author of this Arizona age-verification bill admitted that *he* would never upload a government ID to access but passed this law for the rest of us.

Adult content sites to cut off access or require IDs in Arizona

A law passed earlier this year is set to go into effect this week, cutting off access to adult content sites for Arizonans.

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 23d

Michigan lawmakers have introduced a bill prohibiting the any "depiction or description" of trans people or trans existence online, including it in a bill banning "pornographic" material

The bill would completely erase trans people online, equating them with porn.

Total porn ban proposed by Michigan lawmakers

Some states have moved to require age verification to ensure only adults are watching porn, but no states have outright banned the viewing of pornographic material.

www.fox2detroit.com

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🥩himbo discourse🥩 @internetmaggie.com · 25d

Rotten man will be rotting where he belongs

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Michael Pratt, GirlsDoPorn Ringleader, Sentenced to 27 Years in Prison

Michael James Pratt was sentenced to federal prison on charges of sex trafficking connected to the GirlsDoPorn crime ring. “He turned my pain into profit, my life into currency,” said one victim.

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🥩himbo discourse🥩 @internetmaggie.com · Sep 5

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DRU @peturssondrew.bsky.social · Sep 5

Been trying to explain these ideas simply FOR YEARS and I finally figured out how

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The Secrets of Great Animation (Are Hand Drawn)

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𝔖𝔭𝔬𝔬𝔨𝔶 𝔖𝔦𝔯𝔦 𝔇𝔞𝔥𝔩🧛🏻‍♀️ @siridahl.com · Sep 2

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ysabel @ysabel.bsky.social · Sep 2

“The median OnlyFans creator makes just $180 per month. The top 1 percent of accounts make 33 percent of all the money, and the top 10 percent gobble up 73 percent of the funds paid out.”

www.townandcountrymag.com/society/mone...

The Rise of the Campus OnlyFans Side Hustle

Remember when coeds made some extra cash stacking books at the library or working a shift at a restaurant? Now, with tuition skyrocketing and talk of entrepreneurship and fast and easy millions in the...

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · Jul 28

The introduction of age-verification in the UK this weekend appears to be an unmitigated disaster. Anyone accessing socials now has to upload ID, scan their face or otherwise verify. The outrage is widespread and everyone is just finding workarounds.

The government has gone into defense.

Starmer defends Online Safety Act as `child protection´

Rules introduced under the Act on July 25 require online platforms to take steps to prevent children accessing harmful content.

www.dailymail.co.uk

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Nancy Baym @nancybaym.bsky.social · Jul 28

We may have the chance to hire an outstanding researcher 3+ years post PhD to join Tarleton Gillespie, Mary Gray and me in Cambridge MA bringing critical sociotechnical perspectives to bear on new technologies.

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Search Jobs | Microsoft Careers

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𝔖𝔭𝔬𝔬𝔨𝔶 𝔖𝔦𝔯𝔦 𝔇𝔞𝔥𝔩🧛🏻‍♀️ @siridahl.com · Jul 26

I’ll be going live on my YouTube channel this afternoon/evening to discuss age verification, the censorship of Steam & itch.io, and the grifting anti-LGBTQ, anti-porn organizations that are intent on ruining the internet. 🙃🙃🙃

youtube.com/@siridahl

YouTube thumbnail of Siri flipping two (censored) middle fingers and yellow and white text that says “SICK & TIRED OF CENSORSHIP GRIFTERS”

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · Jul 20

Anti porn feminists are just white supremacists with better branding

Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · Jul 19

The censorship of 80+ games on Steam this week was apparently the work of Australian antiporn group Collective Shout, which partnered with US evangelicals to pressure Visa and Mastercard.

They claimed, without evidence, that the games involved child abuse.

Great work by @acvalens.net for VICE.

Group Behind Steam Censorship Policies Have Powerful Allies — And Targeted Popular Games With Outlandish Claims

The organization behind Steam's latest payment processor censorship, Collective Shout, appears to tell some misleading tales.

www.vice.com

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · Jul 12

Thousands of sex workers are being swept up in targeted ICE raids of massage parlors and abducted off streets with the help of facial recognition. Law enforcement is using the threat of deportation to commit widespread sexual assault.

But the larger immigrant rights movement is shunning them.

Truthout @truthout.org · Jul 12

Sex workers targeted by ICE need the migrant justice movement’s full solidarity.

Sex Workers Are Being Abducted by ICE — and Abandoned by Respectability Politics

Sex workers targeted by ICE need the migrant justice movement’s full solidarity.

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John Paul Stadler @johnpaulstadler.bsky.social · Jul 8

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🥩himbo discourse🥩 @internetmaggie.com · Jul 4

this article is an elegant breakdown of legal stakes in this case - fantastic work from @imillhiser.bsky.social 👏

🥩himbo discourse🥩 @internetmaggie.com · Jul 4

Sexuality is a huge part of our identity and community development, yet access to sexual education, healthcare and content is often spun as 'harmful'

The 'Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton' decision implies we have no legal right to privacy when viewing pornography

www.vox.com/scotus/41806...

The hilarious implications of the Supreme Court’s new porn decision

The Court’s opinion has disturbing things to say about privacy, but the biggest losers are likely to be judges themselves.

www.vox.com

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · Jun 29

WSJ: The Mysterious Billionaire Behind the OnlyFans Porn Empire. By @samschechner.com and Katherine Sayre. Gift link!

OnlyFans is for sale for $8 billion. The owner and his wife are Soviet Jewish émigrés who are philanthropists.

Delighted to see Maggie MacDonald (UofT) quoted! @internetmaggie.com

The Mysterious Billionaire Behind the OnlyFans Porn Empire

Leo Radvinsky is asking as much as $8 billion for the pornography-fueled subscription site he popularized, even as he personally avoids the spotlight.

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · Jun 23

The idea that War on Porn will only have positive outcomes! That it will only target "bad" stuff, that it doesn't require broad digital surveillance, or suppression of sexuality, or that it won't be turned against marginalized people.

The same absolute hubris of these people.

The strange bedfellows driving — and winning — the war on porn

Feminists, religious crusaders and “alpha male” influencers have turned the tide in the decades-old battle over adult content.

www.nbcnews.com

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · Jun 23

The Swedish law criminalizing the purchase of online sex (e.g., cams, livestreams, customs) goes into effect July 1.

Sex workers are sounding the alarm: fears about platforms blocking Sweden entirely, about increased digital surveillance, about being pushed into more dangerous work.

Adult content creators warn new Swedish law ‘takes away safest option’

Adult content creators in Sweden are pushing back against new legislation that makes it illegal to buy online adult content.

www.euronews.com

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