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There is no single, authoritative list of countries that “have no age‑verification or record‑keeping requirements” for adult producers; reporting and industry guides identify a shifting patchwork wher...
Laws on sex with animals vary widely: several European countries criminalize bestiality with prison terms of up to two years or more, while a handful of states/countries historically permitted it (sou...
Most reputable recent estimates place Europe's Muslim population near 45–46 million in 2025, roughly 6% of the continent, up from about 19.5–24.9 million (3.8–5%) around 2000–2010 depending on definit...
A small set of privacy-focused general search engines—Swisscows, MetaGer, Mojeek, DuckDuckGo/Startpage and privacy metasearch tools like SearX—offer the strongest protections when used to look up adul...
Current reporting and legislative proposals show both that some past or former members of Congress have held foreign citizenship and that Congress does not maintain an official roster of dual citizens...
The provided materials make three central claims: , attackers are adopting sophisticated cash-out techniques such as , and underground actors rely on strong operational security and privacy tools to e...
Multiple conservative and libertarian outlets report that Emanuel Brünisholz, a Swiss wind-instrument repairman, was convicted under Switzerland’s anti-discrimination law for a 2022 Facebook comment a...
ProtonVPN publicly asserts a strict stance and routinely rejects foreign law enforcement demands unless routed through Swiss legal assistance; when Swiss courts have ordered assistance, ProtonVPN ofte...
Law enforcement and private investigators confront both limits and workarounds when targets use privacy-first messengers such as Session: public reporting shows agencies have pressured developers and ...
Research across multiple countries shows no consistent causal link between overall immigration and higher crime; several major analyses find either no relationship or lower crime where immigrant share...
Multiple countries have implemented universal health coverage through a range of models that achieve broad access but differ substantially from one another and from U.S. proposals labeled “Medicare fo...
ProtonVPN says it operates under Swiss law with a strict no‑logs policy and repeatedly states it cannot provide connection logs because it is not obligated to retain them; Proton’s transparency report...
Available reporting and government releases show the Trump administration announced or finalized multiple trade-related deals and frameworks during 2025, including framework or final agreements with a...
Law enforcement can compel Proton to log or hand over certain account metadata (notably IP addresses and device info) under Swiss court orders; Proton has published transparency reports and acknowledg...
Legal approaches to paid sex vary widely: many liberal Western democracies permit or regulate prostitution (for example Germany and the Netherlands), while others decriminalize sex work at a subnation...
Donald Trump has received a wide range of gifts from foreign governments, private foreign actors and visiting leaders during and after his presidential terms — from traditional diplomatic items like a...
Court filings unsealed in late 2025 show Jeffrey Epstein maintained accounts at multiple major banks, with documents specifically naming Goldman Sachs and HSBC’s private bank in Switzerland as institu...
Several major VPN providers publish either warrant canaries, transparency reports that list law-enforcement or government data requests, or both. Examples documented in the available reporting include...
U.S. News & World Report’s Best Countries project places the United States near the top of its overall 2024/2025 list — the U.S. reached No. 3 in that ranking . Other surveys show more variation: Repu...
Proton VPN maintains a strict no-logs policy and publishes transparency reports saying it has denied legal requests for VPN user data—Proton reported 29 legal requests as of June 2025 and states all 2...