Executive Director of the Free Speech Coalition. Adult industry advocate. Lover of spreadsheets and legal podcasts.
Demand that your Senator oppose this stupid age verification bill!
Defend Online Privacy: Stop the SCREEN Act!www.defendonlineprivacy.comJohn PerrinoA key Senate committee vote next week won't include AI, but there's a stupid "porn" age verification bill. Why the SCREEN Act is worth your attention: 👉 Age verification required for ANY "interactive computer service" that makes adult content available 👉 IP address verification 👉 VPN restrictions
🚨The SCREEN Act is on the markup agenda next week 🚨 This extreme bill is among the worst of the worst and we have to tell committee members to vote NO.
Free Speech CoalitionThe Senate Commerce Committee will vote on the SCREEN Act on August 5, 2026. Take action now to oppose nationwide age verification in the US This bill would force every adult in the country to hand over identifying information just to use the internet. www.defendonlineprivacy.com/screen/
When asked why British police screwed up the Andrew Tate case so badly, a "detective blamed the malfeasance on 'overworked, overstretched' officers who failed to take the women’s allegations seriously, partly because two of them were sex workers."
Andrew Tate’s Empire of AbuseHow the defining figure of the manosphere built a fortune—and became a political force—by systematically exploiting women.www.newyorker.comGlad to see the last of the NCOSE age verification cases in Kansas dismissed. Private enforcement of age verification laws defies common sense and, in the hands of our opponents, is just another tool to stifle and repress sex online. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Antonia Crane: "Sex workers — like me — get arrested because cops and politicians have something to prove. It’s Election Day, it’s the World Cup, it’s whatever. We are not dirt to sweep up when they clean up the streets ." thelalocal.org/neighborhood...
Why the World Cup has sex workers worriedLaw enforcement agencies are planning one of the largest security operations in LA history, but for sex workers, more policing means more fear, more abuse, more trauma and poverty.thelalocal.orgIt's shameful that the UN platforms ideologically-motivated screeds that spin lies in order to rob sex workers of agency. www.freespeechcoalition.com/blog/fsc-con...
FSC Condemns UN for Pro-Censorship Proclamation — Free Speech CoalitionLate last week, two United Nations volunteers (known as Special Rapporteurs) issued a press release calling for the prosecution of adult platforms that allow user-generated content. They accuse ad...www.freespeechcoalition.comIn his letter to Visa, Ferguson writes, "It is inconsistent with American values to deny law-abiding individuals the ability to run their legitimate businesses and feed their families because they attracted the ire of...overzealous activists"
FTC Chairman Andrew N. Ferguson Issues Warning Letters to CEOs of PayPal, Stripe, Visa and Mastercard About Debanking American ConsumersFederal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew N.www.ftc.govIncredibly timely and powerful report out today from @publicpubics.bsky.social and @internetmaggie.com laying out the debanking challenges faced by adult industry workers in Canada
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Sexual expression is censored because it's powerful.
Mike StabilePorn and erotica are important and societally valuable forms of speech, and the defense of them, in the face of state and church attempts at repression, is a necessary political act.
For anyone who needs to hear this: sex with 15 year old girls is not "barely legal," it's ILLEGAL.
Republican AccountabilityMegyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
It took a few extra days, but it's out! 🎉 This thing took me over a month to write, so I hope it's useful for folks!
Free Speech CoalitionHalf of U.S. states now require adult sites to implement age verification — with laws that are confusing, inconsistent, and often impossible to follow. Today we launched a toolkit to help the industry navigate this patchwork of mandates. 🔗 freespeechcoalition.com/toolkit
I was clearly a bit overly optimistic last week when I thought I'd be able to publish the Age Verification Compliance toolkit I've been writing by today, but it's going through final legal review and will be out next week. Sign up to get your copy when it drops! www.freespeechcoalition.com/toolkit
Age Verification Toolkit — Free Speech Coalitionwww.freespeechcoalition.comWhat I can't get over: "By 10am on Friday, data suggested an extra 66,000 internet users in the UK had begun using the dark web."
Mike Stabile"Ethical hackers have shown Sky News how new age verification systems can be bypassed on pornographic websites in a matter of seconds.... Although Sky News has verified the methods used, we won't give details or name any software used." VPNs. They are talking about gd VPNs. I...