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Love in time of censorship
Life, Story: Thana Boonlert, Published on 21/03/2026
» Women negotiate with China's repression of queer romance through consumption of Thai boys' love (BL), according to research by Xiaoping Wu.
Indonesia to ban social media for children under 16
Life, Puriward Sinthopnumchai, Published on 14/03/2026
» The Indonesian government is preparing to enforce a landmark law banning children under the age of 16 from using social media, joining a growing global movement to shield minors from digital harms.
UK pressures Elon Musk over Grok AI deepfake porn scandal
Life, Puriward Sinthopnumchai, Published on 07/01/2026
» The British government is demanding Elon Musk take immediate action to rein in his Grok artificial intelligence tool following reports that the software is being used to generate non-consensual sexually explicit images.
Grok posts sexual images of minors after ‘lapses in safeguards’
Bloomberg News, Published on 02/01/2026
» LONDON — Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok said “lapses in safeguards” led to the generation of sexualised images of minors that it posted to social media site X, formerly Twitter.
The history of Siamese erotica
Life, Thana Boonlert, Published on 18/10/2025
» In high school, Artyasit Srisuwan saw his friends bring erotic books to class. Teachers confiscated the material and scolded them, but Artyasit did not take the genre seriously until over a decade ago when he got to know Luang Vilaspariwat, known as Kru Liam, a pioneer of erotic literature in the early 20th century, and wanted to write a thesis about it. Due to the lack of primary sources, his adviser convinced him to change the topic.
China detains female ‘boys love’ writers in porn crackdown
Reuters, Published on 09/07/2025
» BEIJING - Police in China have detained dozens of young women authors in a genre of gay erotica widely known in Asia as “boys’ love” during a nationwide crackdown on online pornography, lawyers and activists familiar with the cases say.
Porn stars: Oscar favorite 'Anora' gets sex work right
AFP, Published on 23/02/2025
» NORTHRIDGE (UNITED STATES) - For a film about sex work to win an Oscar is rare. For it to win the respect of sex workers is even rarer.
'Damaging' AI porn scandal at US school scars victims
AFP, Published on 17/01/2025
» WASHINGTON - Her voice tinged with anger, an American mother worried about what the future holds for her teenage daughter, just one of dozens of girls targeted in yet another AI-enabled pornography scandal that has rocked a US school.
Indonesia bans search engine DuckDuckGo on gambling, pornography concerns
Reuters, Published on 02/08/2024
» JAKARTA - Indonesia said it has banned the privacy-oriented search engine DuckDuckGo, citing concerns that it could be used to access pornography and online gambling websites which are illegal in the country, the Ministry of Communications and Informatics said on Friday.
Reforming Thai cinema
Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 03/06/2024
» It has been eight months since the National Soft Power Strategy Committee was established under the government of Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin. Meanwhile, the Thai film industry, supported by the Thailand Creative Culture Agency, has not seen any significant changes.