Emboldened by President Trump’s election, Senator Dusty Deevers, an ultra-conservative abortion abolitionist, pastor, and Oklahoma State Senator, ignores the separation between church and state, Constitutional rights, and human rights in two slates of proposed bills. The first slate of eight…
At the start of the new year, Meta made waves when CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced they would be changing their content moderation policies to eliminate censorship on their platforms, Threads, Instagram, and Facebook. Zuckerberg claimed it was time to “get…
It’s nonsensical and draconian, and now, it’s reality: Pornhub is inaccessible in 16 U.S. states due to age-verification laws. Generally, as James Factora writes, such laws “force sites containing ‘material harmful to minors’” to “utilize age verification” and limit users’…
It might be unsurprising, but that doesn’t make it any less shocking: Republicans in Texas have introduced H.B. 1549, a bill that would restrict sales of pleasure products at “big-box” stores and other non-adult retailers. The bill carries significant penalties…
This month, we will explore the intersection of sex technology, human rights, and online censorship. Sextech business's struggles are similar to struggles faced by advocates, researchers, and educators in the broader field of sexual rights. Individuals in sextech are navigating…
Texas’s new bill H.B. 991, known as the Women and Child Safety Act, has little to do with protecting women or children. Rather, under the guise of concern for people’s wellbeing, H.B. 911 attacks Texans’ most fundamental human rights to…
