SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: Two US Retailers are Covering up Cosmopolitan’s Sexy Headlines

(AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) QUARTZ BY Alice Truong TOO HOT TO HANDLE: Cosmopolitan is getting covered up. Two American retailers plan to place Cosmo behind “blinders” to shield minors from its sex content, reports Women’s Wear Daily. Pharmacy chain Rite Aid and grocery chain Food Lion are requiring Hearst, the magazine’s publisher, to provide U-shaped covers that…

‘Modest’ Bathing Suits Make a Splash: Swimwear Dives into New Market, Offering More Coverage

Two models in modest swimwear made by Undercover Waterwear, a Brooklyn-based company started by an Orthodox woman and her two daughters. PHOTO: MORRIS ANTEBI/UNDERCOVER WATERWEAR WALL STREET JOURNAL By LUCETTE LAGNADO Updated July 23, 2015 9:56 p.m. ET WEST ORANGE, N.J.—When Deborah Nixon heads to her local pool in her swimsuit—a pair of long black leggings…

FAMILY VALUES POWER: New Research Sheds Light on Who Faith Driven Consumers Are—And What They Want

Faith Driven Consumer by Chris Stone Jul 01, 2015 4:04 PM Racially and Politically Diverse, Faith Driven Consumers Are a Powerful Buying Force in America Faith Driven Consumers have emerged as a purchasing powerhouse in recent years. Now, we have some exciting new data that will show exactly who makes up this “faith-driven” cohort of consumers…

Porn Valley Worries Facebook, Twitter’s ‘Porn Purge’ Campaign will Curb Their ‘Overexposure’

EDITORIAL: Notice much of media calls these people publishers. They are pornographers, pimps, predators and their industry owned sex slaves. Of course the porn industry is crying. Every bit of internet space we take back from their onslaught of online smut and violence is ground lost which they fought hard to gain. And, it’s the…

Instagram Clarifies Rules to Ban Revenge Porn

TWIN DESIGN / SHUTTERSTOCK.COM Zach Miners PC World on IDG News Service Apr 16, 2015 1:36 PM Instagram is clarifying its rules around sexual, illegal and other inappropriate content, including posts involving revenge porn. The site now expressly forbids users from threatening to post intimate images of others, as well as sexual content involving minors,…

INNOVATIVE: Google Launches New YouTube App Aimed at Children – Thank You Lord!

FOX 2 NEWS by Maureen Naylor, Reporter CONNECT http://KTVU.images.worldnow.com/interface/js/WNVideo.js?rnd=902691;hostDomain=wn.ktvu.com;playerWidth=630;playerHeight=355;isShowIcon=true;clipId=11169115;flvUri=;partnerclipid=;adTag=News;advertisingZone=;enableAds=true;landingPage=;islandingPageoverride=false;playerType=STANDARD_EMBEDDEDscript;controlsType=overlayKTVU – Google launched a new service aimed at kids on Monday that the tech giant said is the company’s first-ever product built from the ground up with children in mind. Google says families worldwide are watching millions of videos on YouTube. “Trucks and trains and pretty…

FLORIDA: Hillsborough Schools begin Teaching Kids to Cope with Life Online – AWESOME!

This year, as the Hillsborough’s “bring your own device” program goes district-wide, all students are being trained by county media specialists in online etiquette. TRIBUNE PHOTO TBO By Erin Kourkounis | Tribune Staff Published: October 19, 2014   |   Updated: October 20, 2014 at 06:55 AM TAMPA — Like many kids her age, Bloomingdale…