"news" tag (sorted by SiNergy)

The Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection (ASACP) has released a public service announcement (PSA) featuring Catalina Cruz for the Restricted to Adults – RTA Website Label.

The adult industry was dealt a major blow after the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled to uphold the 18 U.S.C. § 2257 federal record-keeping law in the long-contested Connections case. The reasoning behind this- there isn’t a rational basis in the case to justify an overall rejection of the law. Now the fate of this law is in the hands of the U.S.

The British watchdog group, Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), blacklisted the popular archive site Wayback Machine over child pornography. This action lead several British ISP’s to block users from accessing the site. Now according to the IWF guidelines blacklisted URL’s are specific web pages, but in this case the entire site was blocked and no one is saying why.

China has declared war on porn with its campaign to purify the internet. They claim to be targeting websites containing pornographic and vulgar content, and so far that’s lead to over 700 website being shutdown. However their focus isn’t just on porn, but also on anyone opposing the government.

One would think that Visa and MasterCard would actually want to help safeguard their customer's from potential fraud, well apparently they are just making things worse. Both credit card companies offer programs that are supposed to protect their cardholders from fraudsters, but guess what- their verification tools look just like phishing traps! Oh, and gets better...

It looks like Google is following Apples lead when it comes to censoring “offensive” applications with the removal of Jack and Jiggle from the Android Marketplace. The application lets users control a moaning girl on their cell phones by shaking or jacking the handset.

A recent report has dispelled the myth that the 18 to 32 yr olds are the dominant internet user group. In fact, a collection of surveys shows that the largest increases in users are in the 70-75 year-old range and Gen X has a greater number of users compared to Gen Y.

No one knows exactly what Google has done to their algorithms, but it’s apparent that they’ve made a major change that will have serious repercussions for SEOs. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, go out to Google and do a search… notice anything in particular, like Google is promoting big brands and has given them a huge boost in their rankings.

Payment Service Provider Epoch recently sent out service termination notices to several large adult affiliates. Allegedly the letter highlighted Epoch’s termination clause, but didn’t give a reason for the termination. I’d understand if the companies were involved in shady business practices, but they still should have given a reason.

Larry Flynt has filed a law suit against his nephews, Jimmy Flynt II & Dustin Flynt, over the use of the Flynt name. He feels the brother’s company Flynt Media Corp. might cause confusion in the marketplace and will tarnish LFP’s image.