The Wall Street Journal reports that Apple has appeared in an article in People's Daily, which lists numerous websites and app stores that are being investigated for presenting pornographic content in China. . Read More

The Verge reports that Vine, the Twitter-owned video-sharing iOS app, that allows users to put together clips of videos to create six second loops, has introduced an update that warns users about age-restricted material. . Read More

TechCrunch reports that Twitter’s new video sharing platform Vine has a problem. . Read More

Habbo Hotel is gradually restoring chat to its tween-oriented virtual world, following an exposé that labeled the service a “pedophile’s haven," and is introducing new safety measures. Read More

Balderton Capital has checked out of Habbo Hotel following a scathing exposé of the virtual world’s failure to protect its young users against sexual material. Read More

Washington - A federal judge has ruled that the ten-year-old Child Online Protection Act (COPA) — which has never been enforced, but provided criminal and civil penalties for those making sexually explicit content freely available online — is unconstitutional, and issued a permanent injunction barring its enforcement.

The law was initially challenged soon after being passed into law in 1998.

The Supreme Court eventually heard the challenge in 2002, but sent the case back to a lower court, asking for [...].