Adult sites must check users’ age, US court rules

[ad_1] The US Supreme Court on Friday upheld a Texas law requiring pornographic websites to verify visitors’ ages, rejecting arguments that this violates free speech and boosting efforts to protect children from online sexual content, reported AFP. The court’s decision will impact a raft of similar laws nationwide and could set the direction for internet … Read more

Age of ill-founded generalisations

[ad_1] Listen to article We are living in a world of ill-founded generalisations. Generalisations are our judgemental, aphoristic and summarised assessments of people or circumstances. They are mostly churned in haste, satisfying our inner cathartic or vengeful cries. They are also forged in the smithy of slothful minds who shirk viewing anything as relative. Being closed to … Read more

Nuclear cynicism in the age of impunity

[ad_1] Once again, the world is watching a conflict unfold beneath the shadow of an eerily familiar warning. In 2003, the United States invaded Iraq on the unproven claim that Saddam Hussein possessed a stockpile of weapons — including some allegedly capable of mass destruction. The inspection process was cut short. Intelligence — later debunked … Read more