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XBIZ: Internet Researcher Maggie MacDonald Pens Op-Ed on Canada's Age Verification Proposals industry coverage of my anti-censorship advocacy.
The Globe and Mail: Requiring Age-Verification for Porn Won’t Save Children from Online Harm. But It Will Invade Our Privacy my take on risky age-ID laws.
RedCheeks Podcast ▶ Episode #28 with Maggie MacDonald - Pornhub, Controversy, and AI Futures what might be next in the adult industry?
The Walrus: Can Porn Ever Be Ethical? Ethical Capital Partners are determined to make the porn industry safer. How are they approaching Pornhub anew?
Youtube 📼 Porn, Platforms & Sex Panic where did all this porn come from? and why does it look like that? A quick primer on pornography platforms.
XBIZ: Researchers, ECP Release 1st ‘Pornhub Creator Consultations Report a review of Pornhub’s Creator Consultation findings.
ECP Canada: The Pornhub Creator Report summary of findings from Pornhub creator consultations with Dr. Val Webber.
CBC Podcasts ▶ The Pornhub Empire: Understood with Samantha Cole (cut) on the rise of the porn giant and where Pornhub has arrived today.
de Volkstrant: Pornosites doen amper moeite om wraak- en kinderporno te weren (dutch) on porn sites’ history of verification and moderation efforts.
The Society for Cinema & Media Studies 📼 Navigating the Academic Market for Porn Scholars leading researchers discuss the challenges of our unique field.
Adult Empire: Maggie MacDonald: The Researcher Behind ‘Porn, Platforms & Sex Panic taking the pulse of modern porn through research.
CBC News: Can Pornhub evolve? Their New Advisory Board is going to try. Introducing the platforms’ new ownership and advisors.
Wired: Hollywood’s Future Belongs to People, Not Machines automation and AI have transformed media, but what are the stakes?
Wired: Imgur Just Banned Porn the image hosting site is about to wipe out countless uploads, in another instance of deplatforming sexual expression.
CBC News: Pornhub’s New Ottawa-Based Owner Vows to Give Performers More of a Voice centring creators is a priority for Pornhub’s new parent company.
The Varsity: CUPE 3902’s fight for health coverage graduate students at the University of Toronto are organizing to defend their healthcare access.
The Walrus: Why Are Sex Workers Forced to Wear a Financial Scarlet Letter? Why is legal work being financially throttled in Canada?
The Big Story ▶ Why does legal sex work carry a scarlet letter? A Supreme Court case could decriminalize sex work, yet porn creators face financial discrimination
The Bonham Sexual Representation Collection: Complex Pleasures: Selections from the Erotic Film Collection co-curated with Camille Inston.
Canada Talks, Moolala: Money Made Simple ▶ Sex Workers and Their Financial Challenges Interview on porn workers’ unfair financial challenges in Canada.
Gender Troubles Podcast ▶ Porn Futures: an interview with Maggie MacDonald The final episode of Porn Month! Platforms, deepfakes, and policy in Canada.
Mashable: How Pornhub Changed the World How have Pornhub (and parent company MindGeek) transformed the industry in 15 years since 2007?
Mashable: Porn could be in danger if Roe is overturned Abortion, contraception, equal marriage and sexual expression, including porn, are under siege.
The Bonham Sexual Representation Collection 📼 Fast Forwarding Porn: Digitization & Its Discontents workshop on the digitizing of a leading adult archive.
Mashable: Americans Aren’t Having Sex, but the Reasons Why Are Complicated If we can’t share sexuality freely on the Internet… where else can we?
The Conversation: Eradicating Sexual Exploitation in Porn Should Not Be at the Expense of Sex Workers with Dr. Rebecca Sullivan & Dr. Val Webber.
The Walrus: The Double Exploitation of Deepfake Porn the headlines emphasize one form of harm, but nonconsensual deepfake porn injures many.
The Verge: Inside Pornhub a former Pornhub content moderator comments on MindGeek’s platform practices.
Mashable: The Death of Tumblr Porn Left a Void No Other Site Can Fill reflecting on 15 years of Tumblr and the horny ban that left fans mourning.
Mashable: Porn is on Course to Change Forever payment processors have turned porn creators' lives upside down, but what’s next?
Film Daily: How Have Stars Reacted to PornHub Deleting Millions of Videos? How are industry pros responding to Pornhub’s content purge?
Mashable: Pornhub Deleted Millions of Videos. And Then What Happened? sudden moderation and verification changes altered Pornhub’s content landscape.
Wired: She Became a Cam Girl. Then Her Face Morphed Veteran performer Coconut Kitty works from a new frontier of porn: advanced image manipulation.
Le Devoir: Pornhub et compagnie perdent des clics (french interview) detailing Pornhub’s content purge following trafficking allegations.
Theorizing the Web 📼 Faking It: Fans & Platform Responses to Deepfakes panel talk at the New York Museum of the Moving Image (begins 16:43).
CKUT Radio Montreal ▶︎ Deepfakes, for Goodness Sake! on media panic vs the actual practice of making deepfakes for Phase Shift with Tom Hackbarth.
