Pope Demands Tech Firms Protect Kids From Porn
Pope Francis is demanding that Facebook, Apple, Google and other tech companies take measures to remove child porn from the web and to prevent children from seeing pornography online.
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Booking.com Trademark Case Taken Up by High Court
The Supreme Court agreed Friday to hear a case that will decide whether companies with “.com” or other domains in their names can receive federal trademark protection, even if their names would otherwise be generic.
Read morePorn Site Owner Charged With Child Sex Trafficking Amid Fraud Trial
GirlsDoPorn owner Michael Pratt, a fugitive believed to be in New Zealand, was charged Thursday for allegedly producing child porn and sex trafficking related to a 2012 incident involving a 16-year-old.
Read moreCourt Tosses Suit Over Self-Reported Exec Misconduct at LendingClub
A derivative action against online loan platform LendingClub Corp. alleging that the company’s board of directors breached its fiduciary duties was dismissed in Delaware Chancery Court after investors failed to prove that the board acted in bad faith after self-reporting misconduct to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Internet Increasingly Used for Government Surveillance
Freedom House issued its annual report Tuesday, warning that social media is an increasingly dangerous tool for mass surveillance and manipulation of elections. Global internet freedom also declined for the ninth straight year, the nonpartisan, government-supported organization found.
Read moreExpert: Porn Site Made Over $1 Million From Jane Doe Videos
GirlsDoPorn made more than $1 million on videos it produced of 22 Jane Does who accuse the porn company of lying to them to get them to appear in the videos while its owner stands to make $4 million more from over 200 unpublished videos, a financial expert testified Monday.
Read moreNew Jane Doe Video Posted Online During Porn Company’s Fraud Trial
Joining the 22 women who testified before her, an additional witness – Jane Doe “A” – testified in the fraud civil trial against GirlsDoPorn Thursday giving a first-hand account of what the company’s videographer had previously admitted: the porn company is still recruiting women and posting new videos online in the midst of trial.
Read moreMaryland’s Online Political Ad Law Debated in Fourth Circuit
Maryland’s effort to regulate online political ads was met with skepticism by a Fourth Circuit judge Wednesday, as a state attorney defending against a challenge by The Washington Post and other newspapers argued the law doesn’t violate digital publishers’ right to free speech.
Read moreWoman Says She Was Paid to Harass Does’ Attorneys in Porn Fraud Trial
The ex-girlfriend of a porn producer for GirlsDoPorn testified Tuesday she was paid $300 a week to harass the attorneys representing the 22 Jane Does accusing the online porn purveyor of a bait-and-switch scheme to get them to appear in its videos.
Read moreWoman Testifies of Violent Sex, Blocked Door in Porn Fraud Trial
The last of 22 Jane Does to testify against GirlsDoPorn on claims of a bait-and-switch scheme involving the online distribution of pornography videos wept Monday as a deposition was played in which she recounted sex so violent it made her bleed.
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Chill Your Netflix Habit, Climate Experts Say
Movie nights once required driving to the local video store to rent, rewind and return the latest blockbuster. Now on-demand video content providers offer countless binge-worthy options at the touch of a finger.
Read moreInfowars Defamation
A Texas appeals court ruled in favor of a man who brought a defamation claim against Infowars and the author of an article who posted a picture of him and falsely described him as the suspected Parkland school shooter and a “commie.” The man, Marcel Fontaine, has established a “prima facie case” that the article was false and defamatory.
Read moreHigh-Speed Internet Still Rare in Parts of Rural Texas
Large swaths of rural Texas continue to lag far behind the state’s major metropolitan areas when it comes to high-speed internet, at a time when the United Nations considers online access to be a basic human right.
Read moreBackpage
A federal judge refused to dismiss a 100-count indictment against the creators of Backpage.com on Thursday, finding the indictment “goes through a long and fact-specific description of the defendants participation in a conspiracy to facilitate and promote prostitution.”
Read moreStudy Finds 6% of Users Post Majority of Political Tweets
Twitter has become the platform of choice for reporters and news junkies since its creation in 2006, but a new study from the Pew Research Center reveals that a only a small fraction of users contribute to the vast majority of political commentary on the website.
Read moreProposal Seeks to Modernize Campgrounds at National Parks
The Interior Department is reviewing recommendations to modernize campgrounds at national parks. The recommendations posted online this week come from an advisory committee created under former Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke that has been looking at ways for private businesses to operate on public lands.
Read moreFeds Indict Hundreds Linked to World’s Largest Child-Porn Site
Hundreds of people in the United States and around the world were charged Wednesday in a bust of what the Department of Justice is calling the internet’s largest cache of child porn.
Read morePorn Fraud Civil Trial to Continue Despite Criminal Charges
The day after an online porn purveyor removed GirlsDoPorn’s videos and less than a week after federal prosecutors filed sex trafficking charges against its owners and operators, GirlsDoPorn lost a bid to stay the months-long civil trial brought by women who say they were duped to appear in its videos.
Read moreAbortion Foes’ Videos Spurred Safety Concerns, Clinic Workers Testify
A Planned Parenthood doctor who was surreptitiously recorded by anti-abortion activists David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt at a National Abortion Federation conference in San Francisco said her sense of security was shaken after a video of what she thought was a private conversation about fetal tissue donation was released online.
Read morePorn Company Charged by Feds for Sex Trafficking
Amidst a months-long civil fraud trial for allegedly engaging in a bait-and-switch scheme to get women to appear in pornographic videos shot in San Diego, the owner and operators of GirlsDoPorn were criminally indicted on sex trafficking charges Thursday.
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