Filtering by category 'Pornography' containing 45 posts menuFind topics by keyword Abortion (5)Academia (10)Access (118)Accountability (1)Activism (1)Africa (44)Animal Rights (2)Anonymity (48)Antisemitism (8)Arab Spring (70)Art (72)Article 19 (12)Atheism (11)Australia (13)Blackwell's Panel (7)Blasphemy (105)Blogger (29)Books (6)Brazil (4)Buddhism (10)Burma (19)Canada (8)Catalonia (2)Catholicism (1)Celebrity (5)Censorship (215)Charlie Hebdo (16)Child abuse (4)China (52)Christianity (65)Citizen journalism (1)Civil liberties (1)Civility (181)Colonialism (16)Copyright (55)Corruption (11)Counter-speech (1)Debate (4)Defamation (122)Democracy (124)Denialism (15)Denmark (13)Discrimination (32)Diversity (2)Education (98)Egypt (26)Europe (24)Exclusion (6)Facebook (50)Film (5)Finland (4)France (17)Freedom (200)Gaza conflict (5)Gender (5)Genocide (28)Germany (35)Google (31)Governance (20)Hate speech (153)Hinduism (3)History (118)Homosexuality (10)Hong Kong (2)Human rights (1)Humour (14)Hungary (9)Hunger strike (7)India (79)Institutions (1)Intellectual Property (1)International law (1)Internet (307)Internet access (1)Internet companies (1)Iran (7)Islam (125)Israel (9)Italy (2)Japan (4)Journal (1)Journalism (144)Kenya (10)Knowledge (162)Language (56)Latin America (16)Law (291)Lese majesty (1)LGBT (1)Liberalism (27)Libya (11)Literature (39)Lord Ken MacDonald (4)Malaysia (1)Media (323)Memory (1)Memory laws (12)Middle East (75)Mijatović (1)Minorities (31)Money (53)Morality (45)Multiculturalism (52)National security (192)Nationalism (3)Net neutrality (101)Netherlands (3)New Zealand (4)Nigeria (1)No-platforming (11)Norway (4)Nudity (7)Occupy movement (1)Open source (9)Pakistan (25)Palestine (6)Philippines (4)Philosophy (4)Piracy (4)Poland (7)Politics (269)Pornography (45)Power (293)Privacy (135)Propaganda (1)Protest (115)Public Morality (96)Race (3)Radio (16)Regulation (30)Religion (193)Reputation (64)Right to information (277)Robust Civility (7)Russia (14)Russian interviews (5)Rwanda (5)Safe spaces (1)Satire (41)Saudi Arabia (12)Science (31)Scientology (1)Secrecy (4)Secularism (1)Self-Censorship (1)Singapore (7)Snowden (6)Social media (122)South Africa (12)Southeast Asia (8)Sport (7)Surveillance (31)Syria (8)Tanzania (1)Technology (150)Terrorism (16)Thailand (2)Tolerance (2)Tunisia (5)Turkey (49)Twitter (47)Ukraine (2)United Kingdom (94)United States (75)University (7)Violence (194)Whistleblowing (18)Wikileaks (13)Wikipedia (12)Yemen (2)YouTube (9) Who decides what is ‘extreme pornography’ that could send you to jail? Clarissa Smith examines the flawed narratives underlying pornography laws in the UK. Free Speech Debate’s highlights of 2015 Neil Dullaghan sums up a year of conflict and controversy for free speech, catalogued on our website. Rae Langton: Why an understanding of silence is important to free speech debates In this interview for Free Speech Debate, renowned Philosophy Professor Rae Langton speaks about the value of philosophy for our understanding of free speech and discusses aspects of her work on pornography and the silencing of women. The cultural harm of rape pornography Erika Rackley and Clare McGlynn consider the evidence for this ‘cultural harm’ and argue that education is the best way to counter it. Should ‘revenge porn’ be illegal? Max Harris explains how Britain legislated against it and compares this with the position in other common law countries Free to fantasise? Pornography and its harms Jo Fidgen asks what the hard evidence is for negative effects of pornography on sexual behaviour. Should ISPs be told to block “adult” content? Internet Service Providers do not merely route data packets from end-to-end, but are heavily involved in monitoring their customers’ online activities. Ian Brown discusses the implications of Britain’s suggested “voluntary” opting out of “adult content”, with little parliamentary and court involvement. Can Australia distinguish between art and pornography? Kim Wilkinson examines the case of celebrated Australian artist Bill Henson, who caused controversy in 2008 with his photography that featured images of naked teenagers. Opt-in for porn? Then why not for religion? Leslie Green, a distinguished legal philosopher who has written extensively about issues of obscenity and pornography, challenges our case study on online porn filters. Britain’s proposed online porn filters How do we strike the right balance between freedom of expression and child protection? Sarah Glatte explores a proposal by the British government. Does a British Museum exhibition turn porn into art? Katie Engelhart visits a shunga exhibition at the British Museum, and asks if the sexually explicit can be art. Along the way she explores issues of artistic intent and temporality. Child pornography and freedom of expression Did the European Court of Human Rights wrongly considered the distribution of child pornography to be an exercise of freedom of expression in the case Karttunen v. Finland, asks Rónán Ó Fathaigh. Censoring The Scorpions In 2008, six British ISPs blocked access to a Wikipedia page featuring an album cover with an image of a prepubescent naked girl, writes Maryam Omidi. Why should Amazon be our taste and decency police? The online retailer has been criticised for profiting from ebooks featuring terror and violence. No one should tell us what to read, says Jo Glanville. The Iranian actress’s sex tape scandal A leaked sex video resulted in Iranian actress Zahra Amir Ebrahimi fleeing the country to avoid prosecution, writes Fatemeh Shams Esmaeili. Moez Chakchouk: Can the Tunisian Internet Agency defend net neutrality? Online censorship is futile as it can almost always be circumvented, says Moez Chakchouk, the head of the Tunisian Internet Agency. RapeLay: a virtual rape game A Japanese video game that involved raping women was banned three years after its creation following an international outcry by women’s groups. India’s cartoon porn star The Indian authorities’ decision to ban Savita Bhabhi, an online comic strip featuring a promiscuous housewife with an insatiable appetite for sex, was met with a criticism from the press. Maryam Omidi weighs up whether it was the right decision.
Who decides what is ‘extreme pornography’ that could send you to jail? Clarissa Smith examines the flawed narratives underlying pornography laws in the UK.
Free Speech Debate’s highlights of 2015 Neil Dullaghan sums up a year of conflict and controversy for free speech, catalogued on our website.
Rae Langton: Why an understanding of silence is important to free speech debates In this interview for Free Speech Debate, renowned Philosophy Professor Rae Langton speaks about the value of philosophy for our understanding of free speech and discusses aspects of her work on pornography and the silencing of women.
The cultural harm of rape pornography Erika Rackley and Clare McGlynn consider the evidence for this ‘cultural harm’ and argue that education is the best way to counter it.
Should ‘revenge porn’ be illegal? Max Harris explains how Britain legislated against it and compares this with the position in other common law countries
Free to fantasise? Pornography and its harms Jo Fidgen asks what the hard evidence is for negative effects of pornography on sexual behaviour.
Should ISPs be told to block “adult” content? Internet Service Providers do not merely route data packets from end-to-end, but are heavily involved in monitoring their customers’ online activities. Ian Brown discusses the implications of Britain’s suggested “voluntary” opting out of “adult content”, with little parliamentary and court involvement.
Can Australia distinguish between art and pornography? Kim Wilkinson examines the case of celebrated Australian artist Bill Henson, who caused controversy in 2008 with his photography that featured images of naked teenagers.
Opt-in for porn? Then why not for religion? Leslie Green, a distinguished legal philosopher who has written extensively about issues of obscenity and pornography, challenges our case study on online porn filters.
Britain’s proposed online porn filters How do we strike the right balance between freedom of expression and child protection? Sarah Glatte explores a proposal by the British government.
Does a British Museum exhibition turn porn into art? Katie Engelhart visits a shunga exhibition at the British Museum, and asks if the sexually explicit can be art. Along the way she explores issues of artistic intent and temporality.
Child pornography and freedom of expression Did the European Court of Human Rights wrongly considered the distribution of child pornography to be an exercise of freedom of expression in the case Karttunen v. Finland, asks Rónán Ó Fathaigh.
Censoring The Scorpions In 2008, six British ISPs blocked access to a Wikipedia page featuring an album cover with an image of a prepubescent naked girl, writes Maryam Omidi.
Why should Amazon be our taste and decency police? The online retailer has been criticised for profiting from ebooks featuring terror and violence. No one should tell us what to read, says Jo Glanville.
The Iranian actress’s sex tape scandal A leaked sex video resulted in Iranian actress Zahra Amir Ebrahimi fleeing the country to avoid prosecution, writes Fatemeh Shams Esmaeili.
Moez Chakchouk: Can the Tunisian Internet Agency defend net neutrality? Online censorship is futile as it can almost always be circumvented, says Moez Chakchouk, the head of the Tunisian Internet Agency.
RapeLay: a virtual rape game A Japanese video game that involved raping women was banned three years after its creation following an international outcry by women’s groups.
India’s cartoon porn star The Indian authorities’ decision to ban Savita Bhabhi, an online comic strip featuring a promiscuous housewife with an insatiable appetite for sex, was met with a criticism from the press. Maryam Omidi weighs up whether it was the right decision.