Seems to me this is a case for OSHA. But it’s actually no laughing matter. Porn star Kira Kener was fired by Vivid “the same day she told management she was concerned about having to work with previously used marital aids, the lawsuits stated.” She sued, and they now have settled. Used. Marital. Aids. Ew.…

Update!: Print your very own Universal Response Form for Internet Content Filtering Suggestions (jricher.jricher.com)! Or rather, Utah lawmakers want to ban free wifi and penalize those with open networks to “protect children form porn”. They’re also proposing to punish and out Utah ISP’s who don’t voluntarily police (read: don’t publish, take down) “obscene material”. They’re…

Hey — is everyone so caught up in obsessing about the shootings that they aren’t noticing what happened with the Supreme Court and abortion today? And that, like, the four dissenting voices were the few “liberals” in the court, including the only *female* left on the Supreme Court? This is even if a doctor deems…

I think this pretty much depicts how MSM feels about bloggers, citizen media and online indy journalism — this quote from Brian Williams, anchor of NBC Nightly News, speaking to NYU journalism students: You’re going to be up against people who have an opinion, a modem, and a bathrobe. All of my life, developing credentials…

It’s actually quite good! The pictures are nice, too — I’m glad to see an article on Kink focusing on the tech questions, and gets them talking about their new hi-def streaming enterprise, and how they’re protecting their data. Wonderfully, the new Cnet article about Kink.com explains how they’re doing it better than MSM video…

This is very serious: it’s looking like the firing of the Gonzales eight is connected to the Bush administration’s ‘war on porn’ — and it’s clear that it’s the war on adult porn, not cases involving minors, as the prosecutors would have preferred (after wishing that the DoJ resources had been directed at the ‘war…

This week’s column in Teh Chonic is Don’t Be Evil (Or A Dyke, Or Trans): Google’s AdWords confuses transgender terms with teen porn. We’ve all laughed (or shrieked) at the mis-matching of Google AdWords to search terms, or emails in Gmail — but in this case, sex-positive trans porn company Red Handed Porn found they…

As many of you know, the Mayor of San Francisco is a recently reformed teetotaler, after a round with a sex scandal. Well, now there’s this: “San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom’s administration will change its policy on issuing laudatory proclamations after a gay porn studio was honored last week without the mayor’s knowledge, city officials…

A while back I wrote about crazy plot developments in the Sex.com saga, when the mis-appropriator of the URL’s lawyer was nearly murdered in Tijuana. Yeah, it’s like that. Well, it looks like Stephen Michael Cohen showed up for his court date, surprising at least a couple of people following this trainwreck (including me). According…

It’s lame and *very* sex-negative and I have no idea what it really has to do with geeks, but this Wired piece about fetish cafes is still interesting — would have been even more interesting if the writer had expanded on the cafes, and left out the judgmental psychoanalysis. Love the hanging accusation that patrons…