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Nepal says it has blocked 25,000 websites in pornography ban
Nepalese internet providers have begun blocking thousands of pornographic websites as part of a government directive aimed at stopping sexual violence, officials said Sunday. The government issued new criminal and civil codes this year that include regulations against the use, broadcast and publication of pornographic ...
China shuts thousands of websites in clean-up campaign, state media says
China has shut down more than 4,000 websites and online accounts in a three-month campaign against "harmful" online information, the official Xinhua News Agency said Saturday, citing the country's illegal publication watchdog. China keeps the internet under tight control and has been cracking down on ...
Ministop ends sale of porn magazines at convenience stores nationwide
Unrestricted displays of pornographic magazines at retail stores are rare overseas. With the number of inbound tourists expected to increase sharply for the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics in Tokyo, calls for the removal of porn magazines from convenience store shelves in Japan have been ...
Deceptive DVD maker held for allegedly coercing women into making porn videos
A man who ran an online porn DVD store was arrested Monday on suspicion of coercing an 18-year-old woman in Osaka to perform in a porn video after enticing her with an offer to be cast as a cosplay model. Shinichi Kanazawa, 48, used similar ...
Government calls for tougher crackdown on porn video coercion
The government decided Friday to crack down harder on coercing young women to have sex in pornographic videos by deploying specialists in prefectural police departments across the country. In a set of measures, the government is also calling on authorities to strengthen support and consultation ...
U.S. Navy investigating decorated California-based SEAL's moonlighting as porn star
The navy is investigating a decorated SEAL who moonlights as a porn actor. The Naval Special Warfare Command wants to know whether Chief Special Warfare Officer Joseph Schmidt III properly obtained permission from his commanders for outside work and whether they condoned his acting career, ...
China takes 5,500 apps offline, including pornographic and violent: Xinhua
China's internet supervisors have taken down more than 5,500 illegal apps for disseminating such things as pornographic and violent content, as well as others, the official Xinhua news agency said on Tuesday. The move is the latest step taken by Beijing to clean up its ...
Porn makers want sexual fantasies to become virtual realities
In June, hundreds of people thronged a small virtual reality event in Tokyo's Akihabara district, forcing the organizer to cancel it halfway through. What drew such a big crowd so quickly? A VR-based porn demonstration. "It was unexpected," said Kento Yoshida, head of the group that organized ...
India launches first internet hotline to tackle surge in child porn
India on Monday launched its first internet hotline to encourage people to report online child pornography and curb a surge in photographs and videos on the internet showing children being sexually exploited, the founders of the initiative said. Siddharth Pillai, co-director of Indian anti-trafficking charity ...
A state senator in the predominantly Mormon state of Utah wants to declare pornography a public health crisis, echoing an argument made by many conservative religious groups as porn becomes more accessible on smartphones and tablets. Republican Sen. Todd Weiler, a Mormon, contends children are ...
Taipei travel cards featuring Japanese porn star sell out in hours
Taiwanese travel payment cards featuring the image of Japanese adult video actress Yui Hatano sold out within four hours of going on sale Tuesday. EasyCard Corp. began taking orders by phone for the cards at midnight and sold out all 15,000 sets at 4:18 a.m., ...
Taiwan to issue 'angel' and 'devil' metro cards featuring Japanese porn star
Taiwan will roll out "angel" and "devil" metro cards featuring a Japanese porn star next week, despite a public outcry and a previous decision to scrap the project. Japanese adult film actress Yui Hatano will appear on a limited-edition charity series of Taiwan EasyCards, which ...
