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Tumblr is pushing porn into an internet sex ghetto >> Valleywag

guardiantech — 2013-07-17T21:44:08+00:00

This will also make it just as hard for you to find porn on Tumblr, which is a really big deal for millions of people who use Tumblr. The same millions of people who Yahoo! wanted so badly to buy access to, in order to advertise to them. But no one will want to advertise to them if they're cruising for boobs. The problem here sounds confusing, but it's not: Yahoo! bought Tumblr to be cool. Tumblr was cool, in part, because you could stumble upon boobs or some kind of freaky-ass GIF or whatever the hell.

You must read it for the payoff line. Or, if you prefer, the money shot.

Lawyer: Apple should protect me from my porn addiction >> Above the Law

guardiantech — 2013-07-15T15:27:59+00:00

The plaintiff, Chris Sevier, is an attorney in Nashville. A news report of his arrest last month on unrelated charges of stalking country music star John Rich (the guy whose obnoxious song mars my weekly viewing of College GameDay) states that Sevier’s 36, though his Model Mayhem bio says he’s 26. For someone mad about porn on the Internet, he’s already adopted its first cardinal rule: models always lie about their age.
Sevier’s complaint makes a simple request: Apple should sell all products with an installed filter blocking all internet porn. If the buyer, over the age of 18, wishes to unlock the Internet, he or she is free to contact Apple, sign a form acknowledging the ills of pornography, and receive a code to remove the filter.

So Sevier already has a ton of Googlejuice for his name, linked to being a lawyer/attorney, and "porn" and "addiction". Also "Apple". In a while he can drop the lawsuit, laugh it off to future clients, and he'll still be in all the search engines when someone searches for "porn" "addiction" "lawyer". Postmodern SEO?

Sex, Lies and Porn Statistics >> Ministry of Truth

guardiantech — 2013-06-23T19:33:42+00:00

There's no single extract to take out of this; it's a long post but very, very well worth it, especially for the debunking of many "X% of the internet is porn!" and "Porn makes garbillions of dollars every day!" pseudo-stats.

"Porn identification officer" in China gets paid to watch porn >> Daily Dot

guardiantech — 2013-04-17T21:16:34+00:00

What is porn? You may believe you hold some expertise in the matter, but are you a professional? Can you separate the phony porn from pure stuff? If so, whip out that résumé. The Chinese need you.

Actually, there's are similar jobs in the UK, at the Internet Watch Foundation. Except it's more than porn. It's gruelling, by all accounts.

Heads up: Blackberry Messenger might share your porn habits with your friends >> Motherboard

guardiantech — 2013-04-03T21:15:10+00:00

Users at the Crackberry forums have unveiled what they're calling a dirty little flaw in the push update capabilities of the new Blackbery Z10. The newest Blackberry Messenger (BBM) build has a feature that notifies all of your BBM contacts when you're listening to a song or watching a video–be it from Youtube or Youjizz.
BBM records any usage of the phone's media player and can push these visits and downloads to all messenger contacts, much like a status update. So your grandmother might be notified that you've been listening to the new Justin Timberlake album, or she might know that you have a fetish for, uh, granny porn.

Oops.

BoobTube: Why YouTube can't stop porn >> Daily Dot

guardiantech — 2013-03-11T15:22:24+00:00

In terms of YouTube’s larger porn problem, "Definitely the best Harlem Shake” is barely even a nip slip. It’s not hardcore porn with actual sexual penetration, after all, just a few naked women shimmying next to a guy holding a pizza box.
It does, however, speak to a larger problem YouTube faces: The site’s censorship is a shell game, one that relies almost entirely on users to flag offensive or sexually explicit content. If a video gets taken down, another will likely soon replace it, on another person's channel and with another set of views.

Note at the top of the story: contains explicit material. So, possibly NSFW. (Though not if you have a Flash blocker on.)

Q&A: the researchers who analyzed all the porn on the internet >> TIME.com

guardiantech — 2012-04-20T20:39:45+00:00

From June 2011, but we just rediscovered it:

Searching all the porn on the Internet might not seem like the most scientifically productive activity, but computational neuroscientists Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam did it anyway.

They discovered they could roughly classify all - well, most - of the porn (accessed via searches) online. You are either just about to feel like one of a large crowd, or rather unusual. We won't spoil it for you.

Apple gets control over porn domain names >> Domain Name Wire

guardiantech — 2011-11-22T22:01:43+00:00

Web-blocking, the Apple way.

How much of the internet is actually for porn >> Forbes

guardiantech — 2011-09-13T05:26:51+00:00

Try to guess the answer before you read the article. Then try to resist the answer to say "How much??" when you read the answer.

Chart of the Day: who Is the new YouTube of porn? >> Business Insider

guardiantech — 2011-09-06T22:09:06+00:00

Obviously, you won't care much about this, but we include it for completeness.