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Editorial Roundup: Wisconsin
Eau Claire Leader-Telegram. March 28, 2024. Editorial: New laws will protect Wisconsin children We’re sure one of the headlines this week generated more than one “Wait, what?” reaction. The fact Wisconsin had to take action to block artificially generated child...
Kansas moves to join Texas and other states in requiring porn sites to verify people's ages
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas is poised to require pornography websites to verify visitors are adults, a move that would follow Texas and a handful of other states despite concerns about privacy and how broadly the law could be applied. The Republican-controlled Kansas Legislature...
Italy's Meloni seeks symbolic compensation from suspects over deepfake porn images
ROME (AP) — Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni has been asked to testify in court July 2 in the trial of two men who are accused of making deepfake pornographic images using her face and posting them online. Meloni, who is listed as an injured party in the trial in Sassari in Sardinia,...
Singer R. Kelly seeks appeals court relief from 30-year prison term
NEW YORK (AP) — R. Kelly’s lawyer told an appeals court Monday that all kinds of legitimate organizations — even college fraternities — could be deemed racketeering organizations under a law used to convict the R&B superstar at his Brooklyn trial of sexually abusing young fans,...
Ex-Catholic priest gets nearly 22 years in prison for attempted sexual abuse of a South Carolina boy
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A former Catholic priest in South Carolina has been sentenced to nearly 22 years in prison for trying to sexually assault a boy and showing him pornography. Jamie Adolfo Gonzalez-Farias, 69, could have faced a life sentence. Federal Judge Mary Geiger Lewis on...
Germany will reduce the minimum sentence for child sexual abuse images, citing unintended problems
BERLIN (AP) — Germany's Cabinet on Wednesday approved plans to reduce a one-year minimum sentence for spreading child sexual abuse images, changing a rule that was introduced less than three years ago but officials say has proven to be too inflexible in practice. German law...
What to know about how lawmakers are addressing deepfakes like the ones that victimized Taylor Swift
Even before pornographic and violent deepfake images of Taylor Swift began widely circulating in the past few days, state lawmakers across the U.S. had been searching for ways to quash such nonconsensual images of both adults and children. But in this Taylor-centric era, the problem...
