If the UK government has its way, public Wi-Fi will be sanitised, and surfers forbidden from accessing adult content. That's the stance of the Prime Minister, David Cameron, who has pledged to provide "good, clean, Wi-Fi" in public spaces.

The Vatican may have been busy electing a new Pope, but it doesn't seem to have kept the priests too busy for a bit of porn. Some enterprising bloggers nosed around the Internet to find out what people were downloading from Vatican IP addresses. The results were surprisingly earthly.

Could the EU really ban porn online? Next week, hundreds of European parliament members will vote on a report that calls for banning pornography across 'all media' - including the Internet.

There's another land rush on in Canada, but this time the territory is digital. XXX domain names became publicly available last week, and Canadian firms are already rushing to protect themselves against ‘ghost’ porn sites popping up.

There is an awful lot of porn on the web, but did you ever expect any of it to be hosted by an animals rights group? That's right - PETA is getting into porn.