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Ghana's Proposed Porn Age Verification Faces Strong Opposition
Politicsmyjoyonline3d ago

Ghana's Proposed Porn Age Verification Faces Strong Opposition

Kofi Bentil and other experts have voiced strong opposition to Ghana's proposed age verification system for accessing pornography, arguing it is not the government's role to control consumption and that technical challenges like VPNs would render it ineffective.

My cultural awakening: a Rihanna song showed me how to live as a gay man in Iran
CultureThe Guardian3mo ago

My cultural awakening: a Rihanna song showed me how to live as a gay man in Iran

My sexuality had to be hidden from my friends, my parents, not to mention the authorities. Then I found freedom at house parties and one song that sums up me finally being able to be myself I was raised in Tehran, under the Ayatollah’s sharia law and daily watch of Basij – the “morality police”. My parents fell in love with the Islamic Revolution when I was a baby and welcomed life under its strict religious rules. The Ayatollah’s face stared down from the walls at home, a daily reminder of w...