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How the UK will implement CSO registration for adult porn

15-04-2026 04:46 / sexual politics, criminalized images of children, UK, the push, pornography, censorship, registrant issues

Having been following the UK's Crime and Policing Bill since my article for Mu last year, I've just finished writing a 3000-word essay about all the problems it raises. And I'm not going to publish that. Why? Because there are so many issues to discuss, and they can't really all be dealt with...

The proposal that may criminalize MAP activism in the UK

19-01-2026 06:27 / MAPs, sexual politics, criminalized images of children, globalization, the push, pornography, UK, censorship, AMSC

Baroness Bertin's proposal would criminalize free speech for MAPs.

Last year, I wrote an article for MAP Union about the UK's Crime and Policing Bill. I discussed a number of proposals relevant to MAPs. These included extreme new requirements for registered sex offenders, more severe regulat...

Questions from an American prison

11-01-2026 01:44 / MAPs, sexual politics, USA, the push, censorship, AMSC

If you're an older MAP, or simply one who has read up on MAP history like I, you may be aware of NAMBLA and their program of writing letters to people imprisoned under America's draconian sex laws. Well, one of my readers happens to be a part of that program, and he forwarded my manifesto to one...

Legal MAP sites under attack in Australia and the UK

20-12-2025 09:17 / MAPs, discrimination, computing, UK, Australia, social media, censorship

A beautiful new Australian MAP flag designed by 'beefriend'

In case it wasn't bad enough that MAPs can't talk openly in person or on social media, and that pretty much every possible expression is being criminalized absent of any evidence of harm, there is a new threat that has been flying under t...