NCSF Media Update Digest
April 26, 2018
 





Check out the latest kinky news every day on NCSF's blog:  https://ncsfreedom.org/press/blog.html
 
NCSF Media Updates are a sampling of recent stories printed in US newspapers, magazines, and selected websites containing significant mention of BDSM-leather-fetish, polyamory, or Lifestyle topics. These stories may be positive, negative, accurate, inaccurate or anywhere in between.

NCSF publishes the Media Updates to provide readers with a comprehensive look at what media outlets are writing about these topics and to urge everyone to make comments that dispute stereotypes about alternative sexuality. NCSF permits and encourages readers to forward these Updates where appropriate.
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anchor2A new law intended to curb sex trafficking threatens the future of the internet as we know it
 
Vox
The bill's language penalizes any websites that "promote or facilitate prostitution," and allows authorities to pursue websites for "knowingly assisting, facilitating, or supporting sex trafficking," which is vague enough to threaten everything from certain cryptocurrencies to porn videos to sites for perfectly legal escort services. (In fact, one of the bill's main supporters, the National Center on Sexual Exploitation, is arguably using the bill as a path to attack consensual adult pornography, which it has characterized as "violent," "degrading," and "a public health crisis.")

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anchor3Cloudflare: FOSTA Was a 'Very Bad Bill' That's Left the Internet's Infrastructure Hanging
 
Motherboard "[Terminating service to Switter] is related to our attempts to understand FOSTA, which is a very bad law and a very dangerous precedent," he told me in a phone conversation. "We have been traditionally very open about what we do and our roles as an internet infrastructure company, and the steps we take to both comply with the law and our legal obligations-but also provide security and protection, let the internet flourish and support our goals of building a better internet."

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anchor4 Students, business people unpack the 'safe, sane and consensual' world of BDSM
 
The Vermilion "You can try yourself," Menard added, "but the time required to understand BDSM can be greatly lessened by getting involved with the community. "It's like Ollivander's, the wand shop in 'Harry Potter:' you gotta find the right one," David said of the various leather and BDSM related items. "I hope that people who are interested in kinks take the time to find resources that will take that journey along," Menard said.

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article512 Questions People In Polyamorous Relationships Are Sick Of Hearing
 
Huffington Post
"I've heard every version of this and despite my big heart, it always makes me want to punch someone in the face. The condescension and self-righteousness are almost more than I can break down, but consider this: Polyamory is not a compromise we make because we have lower standards; it's a preference - some even consider it an orientation. Doing it right cultivates an intense depth of intimacy. Just like choosing to be exclusive, we're just growing closer through different experiences. You may prefer cross-country skiing, but that doesn't mean everyone who snowboards is settling." -- Zaeli Kane, who runs the YouTube series The Commotion: A Divine (Romantic) Comedy with her partner Blake Wilson. She's been with her husband Joe Spurr for 14 years and they have a daughter. Joe has a girlfriend named Ixi.

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article6What Facebook should fear most isn't future regulation-it's what's already here'
Quartz
The new 230 restrictions, however, will not only affect sex sites. "The newly enacted law holds all internet services accountable for some portion of user content," Goldman says. "And because internet services can't figure out which content complies and which doesn't, the law is actually regulating everything." Without adequate AI tools or enough people to review content, the law is forcing all websites into self-censorship. "That is why it is so pernicious," Goldman added. He predicts smaller websites will either go out of business or never start up.

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anchor7Backpage.com's Founders, Employees Indicted on Charges of Facilitating Prostitution
Rolling Stone

The indictment accuses the executives - Lacey, 69, and Larkin, 68 - of presenting Backpage as a site to advertise escort services while knowing that "the overwhelming majority of the website's ads involve prostitution." Backpage's executive vice president Scott Spear, chief financial officer John "Jed" Brunst, sales and marketing director Dan Hyer, operations manager Andrew Padilla and assistant operations manager Joye Vaught were also charged.

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anchor8Atlanta Leather Pride focuses on family bonding, giving back and BDSM education
 
Georgia Voice
Jonathan Fenrir, the current reigning Mr. Atlanta Eagle, is very much aware of the family component. "There's a growing number of Pride celebrations around town, [but] Atlanta Leather Pride is a chance for people of all walks of life to come out and be a part of something that sees past gender or sexuality," he said. "It's a perfect time for those that might have questions or want to hang out on the edges to see leather and the leather lifestyle celebrated so openly and free of judgement."
 
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