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This may well make your day.

At least, that's what PETA -- the organization created to remind you that animals are people -- would like.

For, never fond of being retiring, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has launched its brand, um, spanking, new .xxx site.

It is clearly intended to appeal to animal desires.

The first thing you see when you arrive on its home page is a true legend of pornography, Ron Jeremy. With his clothes on.

Actually, that probably isn't the first thing many will see. For, just to his left, appears Sasha Grey, … Read more

Ask not why people do things. Ask how it felt when they've done them.

I wonder, indeed, how Robert Dale Esparza Jr. must have felt last year when he set up a fake profile on a porn site. It was in the name of Frank Hendricsen.

Not necessarily a sexy name, that. But it so happened to be one belonging to the assistant principal at the school attended by Esparza's then 13-year-old son.

I find myself moved by the reporting of the Arizona Republic on the conviction of Esparza Jr. for taking the identity of another and computer … Read more

The U.K. is holding a fiery debate over the free and open Internet and how to protect kids from the perils of online porn. The drama-filled saga has enough cartoonish details and self-serving characters in it to fill out an entire Guy Ritchie film -- sadly, sans the comic relief. Or even cute little dogs.

Even though content filters are available, religious organizations and conservatives think the government needs to force ISPs into default filtering. On this bandwagon, loud and proud, are tabloids such as the Sun and Daily Mail.

Under the default filter plans, customers of internet service … Read more

The FBI must prepare its agents for most things.

However, it might have been a first when special agent Jonathan MacDonald and colleagues forced their way into the Palm Coast, Fla., home of Kamil Mezalka, whom they suspected of being involved in child pornography.

For their report claims that Mezalka, standing in his underwear, began stabbing his computer with a samurai sword.

I am grateful to The Smoking Gun for making my Friday more complete by relating this detail.

MacDonald's affidavit presents a moving description of the proceedings.

He says the FBI executed a "mechanical breach of the … Read more

It is surely accepted that sports writers are the most talented employees of news organizations.

They work under the most pressure, and their creativity is unbounded.

However, with that pressure comes the possibility of pain.

So I am torn and twisted by the information brought to me through Gizmodo that Vito Stellino, the very ball-sports oriented writer of the Florida Times Union, seems to have got his links in a bind by offering his Twitter followers material of a difficult nature.

No, he didn't start Weining (that's the practice of attempting to attach a personally revealing image to … Read more

Perhaps you have noticed over the years that when you walk into a bookstore, the copies of Playboy are covered in opaque plastic.

This is so that the eyes and minds of the young and sensitive won't be coarsened by the sight of a partially clad human body.

Well, in Britain, quite a few influential souls are trying to so the same with the Internet.

There is a growing movement -- championed by one of liberty's great pillars, the Daily Mail -- to make online porn opt-in, rather than simply available at the twitch of a mouse.

The Prime Minister himself, … Read more

I know that many people were excited when .xxx domains first reared their pretty heads a year ago.

Yet there was already some evidence at the end of last year that some institutions, such as, for example, Stanford and the U.S. Department of Justice had not bothered to protect themselves by registering their own .xxx.

Now, some very diligent people at Domain Name News decided to see how many .xxx domains were generating heat.

It transpires that people don't seem to be rushing to the .xxx version of much at all. For Domain Name News discovered that a … Read more

It is always stimulating when an executive from Google tells us something about, you know, life.

Recently, we've had Sergey Brin explaining that it is surely better to trust Google than governments. Or, um, Facebook and Apple.

Yesterday, it was the turn of Naomi Gummer, who is a public policy analyst at Google in the United Kingdom. Her declaration was a simple one: It isn't Google's responsibility to ensure that kids aren't confronted by online porn. That falls to the parents.

The way the Telegraph speaks of her speech to a conference of child welfare experts, … Read more

We'll come to the explanation in a minute, but let's bathe in the pathos first.

So there were viewers of CHCH TV in Hamilton, Ontario, munching on their morning croissants and offering one eye to their morning newscast.

Suddenly a collective "eh?" must have been heard all the way in Montreal. For, that morning newscast was interrupted with a show in which naked bodies of the same sex writhed and, well, other things.

This was not a mere glimpse. It was not a blip. The Hollywood Reporter tells me it was three minutes of, well, please … Read more