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Apple Takes Ownership of Seven Porn Domains (No, Really)

Here's a novel way to ensure that porn spammers don't create websites based around your products; own all of the pervy variant domain names up yourself. That seems to be the logic behind a recent complaint that ended with Apple taking ownership of seven iPhone-related domains, four of which are clearly not safe for work from their names alone.

Facebook Claims Porn Barrage Is Under Control

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Is it safe to go back in your favorite social network’s waters? Perhaps.

There Was Porn on Sesame Street’s YouTube Channel This Weekend

I don’t think the P in PBS stands for “porn,” but for a brief time on Sunday, it did. PBS’ YouTube account got hacked yesterday afternoon, and for a full 20 minutes, naïve youngsters were exposed to the birds and the bees as unsuspecting parents dropped their kids off in front of the computer.

U.K. ISPs Deny Automatic ‘Parental Control’ Rumors

Despite rumors to the contrary, British internet service providers would like it to be known that customers will have as much access to pornography as they’ve always enjoyed.

Scammers Targeting Canadian Seniors with Internet Porn Threats

Canadian authorities have had to issue a warning to Internet users concerning fake copyright notices they may receive about pornography they haven’t actually downloaded. Confused? You will be.

How Much of the Internet Is Porn? Less than You’d Expect

The Internet really isn’t as pornography-filled as you might think. In fact, according to one expert, only 42,337 of the one million most-trafficked websites online are offering sex-related content, which translates into somewhere around 4% of sites on the Internet.

The .XXX Porn Domains Have Landed

Hello Wednesday and welcome to a new Internet, where domain names with a proper top-level dot-XXX suffix will take you by the hand and lead you, well, somewhere they used to lead you with dot-nets and coms. No, I don’t mean a bunch of websites dedicated to the “kiss” half of “hugs and kisses,” or [...]

House Approves Data-Mongering ISP Snooping Bill (and What That Means for You)

The Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act of 2011 was approved Thursday in the U.S. House of Representatives, and will force internet service providers (ISPs) to keep logs of their customers for up to one year for police review.

Why Is a 70-Year-Old Woman Being Sued for Porn Piracy?

For those who believe that using the BitTorrent protocol for piracy is a young person’s game, you might want to know about a San Francisco woman risking a potential $150,000 fine for torrenting porn.

Coming Soon: A Search Engine Just for .XXX Domains

Latest news from the scantily-clad world of adult entertainment: websites under the new .xxx top-level domain will get a search engine all their own, at the disappointingly ordinary address of www.search.xxx.

Fired IT Guy Sticks Porn into CEO’s PowerPoint Presentation

It may have been the most unexpectedly sexy PowerPoint presentation about a substance abuse center’s achievements ever witnessed. But then, most PowerPoint presentations about substance abuse don’t feature pornographic images, to the best of my knowledge.