Following the seismic exposure of Pornhub for hosting non-consensual and abusive content, credit card companies have cut ties with the adult site, but creators who rely on the platform have been left in the lurch
Pamela Anderson's infamous sex tape with Tommy Lee is now at the heart of a proposed limited series coming to the Hulu internet TV srvice.
Lily James ( Pride and Prejudice and Zombies ) and Sebastian Stan ( Captain America: The Winter Soldier ) are
set to play the former Baywatch star and Mötley Crüe drummer in the new series dubbed Pam & Tommy .
It is reported that Pamela Anderson and Tommy Law are aware of the project but are not involved in the production
Payments giant Mastercard is considering banning people from spending their money at Pornhub.
Mastercard is reviewing its business with pornography platform Pornhub, following a campaign against the website being highlighted by the New York
Times.
Mastercard responded after reporter Nicholas Kristof said he didn't see why search engines, banks or credit-card companies should bolster Pornhub.
Pornhub is free to use but users can pay £9.99 a month for higher-quality video
streams and advert-free and exclusive content.
Visa followed Mastercard's lead and said that it too won't allow Pornhub users to use their credit cards to make charges on the adult content site. Visa said in a statement:
We are instructing the financial institutions who serve MindGeek to
suspend processing of payments through the Visa network.
And according to Bloomberg.com, Mastercard said it's continuing to investigate potential illegal content on other websites, most likely XVideos.
Some porn websites are beginning to comply with a nonsense new Utah law requiring warning labels be attached to adult-oriented materials.
At least three major tube sites, Pornhub, XTube and RedTube, have begun attaching the opt-in notification for
visitors, which states that Utah believes pornographic materials can be harmful if viewed by minors.
This trigger warning is a response to Utah state law sponsored by Utah House Representative Brady Brammer earlier this year. The bill started life
as intending to restrict porn in the state but was watered down until it ended up as a trivial warning requirement.
Pornhub has launched a sex education series it says is trying to bridge the gap between porn and actual sex education.
Healthy masturbation habits, the proper way to use a condom, female anatomy, and what is normal (and what is not) for people with a
penis? These are all areas covered across several short videos. All 11 episodes are narrated by sex therapists and PhDs and offer genuine scientific advice.
Moralist campaigners in the US have been pushing for computers and smart phones to be pre-loaded before sale with unspecified porn blocking software that can only be removed once users pay an unblocking fee.
But the campaigners haven't really done
much to specify how this idea could be implemented in practice. Now the proposal introduced by representative Susan Pulsipher has run into a wall of dissent in the Utah legislature at an interim committee hearing, and the idea was rejected without a
vote.
Pulsipher said the goal of her effort was to create another wall of defense to help protect children from the damaging impact of pornography and empower parents and legal guardians to limit a minor's exposure to such online harmful material.
But committee members balked at Pulsipher's approach, noting that it would be extremely difficult to identify which entity in the consumer electronics supply chain should be held liable for ensuring that software was activated.
Senator Curt
Bramble, R-Provo, pointed out that Pulsipher's proposal failed to identify whether the responsible party was the manufacturer, the company that distributed the product, or the store or reseller that sold the product to the consumer.
Pulsipher said
she appreciated the opportunity to field the concerns of committee members and promised to work on revising the bill in time for further consideration in the next interim session. But Senate Majority Whip Dan Hemmert said he was unlikely to end up a
supporter of the effort, regardless of what changes Pulsipher came back with.
Pamela Anderson's infamous sex tape with Tommy Lee is now at the heart of a proposed limited series coming to the Hulu internet TV srvice. 
Payments giant Mastercard is considering banning people from spending their money at Pornhub. 
Visa followed Mastercard's lead and said that it too won't allow Pornhub users to use their credit cards to make charges on the adult content site. Visa said in a statement: 
Some porn websites are beginning to comply with a nonsense new Utah law requiring warning labels be attached to adult-oriented materials. 
Moralist campaigners in the US have been pushing for computers and smart phones to be pre-loaded before sale with unspecified porn blocking software that can only be removed once users pay an unblocking fee. 
