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Center for Online Safety and Liberty @c4osl.org · 18/09/2026
Do laws protect the vulnerable, or criminalize expression & silence marginalized voices? On Sept 28, Drawing the Line joins a panel of leading voices in research & digital rights to re-evaluate legal frameworks around fictional text. Register here: c4osl.org/medical-school-berlin-workshop
Do laws protect the vulnerable, or criminalize expression & silence marginalized voices?

On Sept 28, Drawing the Line joins a panel of leading voices in research & digital rights to re-evaluate legal frameworks around fictional text.

Register here: c4osl.org/medical-school-berlin-workshopDo laws protect the vulnerable, or criminalize expression & silence marginalized voices?

On Sept 28, Drawing the Line joins a panel of leading voices in research & digital rights to re-evaluate legal frameworks around fictional text.

Register here: c4osl.org/medical-school-berlin-workshopDo laws protect the vulnerable, or criminalize expression & silence marginalized voices?

On Sept 28, Drawing the Line joins a panel of leading voices in research & digital rights to re-evaluate legal frameworks around fictional text.

Register here: c4osl.org/medical-school-berlin-workshop
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Lilly @lillyull.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Deplorable! Thorpe’s Legislating an End to Strip Searching Children and Shackling Birthing Women www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/thorpes...
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Thorpe’s Legislating an End to Strip Searching Children and Shackling Birthing Women
Senator Lidia Thorpe has two bills before parliament that seek to prohibit the deplorable practises of shackling incarcerated women while giving birth and strip searching children.
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Jillian C. York @jillian.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If you're an artist who's experienced unwanted content moderation or shadowbanning, consider joining Don't Delete Art's call on 1 October to share your experience and hear from other artists www.dontdelete.art/artist-meeti...
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Artist Meetings — Don't Delete Art
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Jeremy Malcolm @jere.my · 20/09/2026
Campaigns against pornography used to target real abuse committed in its production or distribution. Now bans are justified by hypothetical abuse it might cause in future. That crackdown is already hurting women and queer creators today, and testing legal safeguards. c4osl.org/pornography-...
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Pornography, Harm, and the Limits of the Law - Center for Online Safety and Liberty
Explore the relationship between pornography regulation and child protection, through recent legal developments that may blur ethical lines.
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Center for Online Safety and Liberty @c4osl.org · 17/09/2026
Who actually wins when we conflate imagined text with real-world violence? Spoiler: not the victims. We’re taking this conversation to an international panel on Sept 28th. Join us: c4osl.org/medical-school-berlin-wor…
Who actually wins when we conflate imagined text with real-world violence?
Spoiler: not the victims.

We’re taking this conversation to an international panel on Sept 28th. Join us: https://c4osl.org/medical-school-berlin-workshop/Who actually wins when we conflate imagined text with real-world violence?
Spoiler: not the victims.

We’re taking this conversation to an international panel on Sept 28th. Join us: https://c4osl.org/medical-school-berlin-workshop/Who actually wins when we conflate imagined text with real-world violence?
Spoiler: not the victims.

We’re taking this conversation to an international panel on Sept 28th. Join us: https://c4osl.org/medical-school-berlin-workshop/Who actually wins when we conflate imagined text with real-world violence?
Spoiler: not the victims.

We’re taking this conversation to an international panel on Sept 28th. Join us: https://c4osl.org/medical-school-berlin-workshop/
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Jeremy Malcolm @jere.my · 16/09/2026
This whole thread.
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Center for Online Safety and Liberty @c4osl.org · 11/09/2026
"Due to porn being a touchy subject, it's hard to fight for freedom of sexual imagination or the value of sex on film, or putting the human experience of sex on film, Ashley said." mashable.com/life/adult-film-maman-…
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Adult film banned in the UK is back online
"We don't want to go to jail."
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Center for Online Safety and Liberty @c4osl.org · 28/08/2026
Success! Last year, COSL filed an amicus curiae brief in a lawsuit that asked the question: can the government criminalize the possession of "obscene" fictional material in the home? This week, the court answered with a resounding "no" c4osl.org/cosl-files-an-anti-though…
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COSL files an anti-thoughtcrime amicus brief - Center for Online Safety and Liberty
We're filing an amicus brief to prevent the government from making it a crime to have "obscene" fictional content in your home.
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Jeremy Malcolm @jere.my · 25/08/2026
I’m joining the Asia-Pacific Regional Internet Governance Forum (APrIGF) in Kathmandu on October 6 for a workshop on how online safety measures can address genuine harms without sacrificing freedom of expression, privacy and cultural participation. Read more and register here.
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Jeremy Malcolm @jere.my · 14/08/2026
I'm honoured to have been appointed to the CHS Global Cyber Safety Advisory Council, an advisory and knowledge-sharing initiative comprising international digital safety experts. Read more about it here. www.chssupport.org/about/global...
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Global Cyber Safety Advisory Council | About CHS
The CHS Global Cyber Safety Advisory Council brings together international advisors contributing perspective on online safety, digital rights and technology-facilitated harms.
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Jeremy Malcolm @jere.my · 29/07/2026
Essential reading from Kyle Huscher for @c4osl.org on the disconnect between policymakers' expectations of age verification systems and what they can actually deliver, based on his firsthand experience helping build one for a platform with over a billion users.
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Jeremy Malcolm @jere.my · 24/07/2026
I’m working in a different sector now, but still have one presentation coming up on 28 September for this @safeonlinefund.bsky.social funded project on text-based fantasy sexual material. Read more and register: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/suEJ4P2Zu5
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Jeremy Malcolm @jere.my · 09/06/2026
Keir Starmer's plan to block all nudity on devices used by minors isn't just about CSAM or pornography. It reflects a broader shift towards a permissioned Internet in which every interaction is monitored and filtered... unless we resist now. My latest: c4osl.org/did-we-just-...
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Did we just lose the open Internet? - Center for Online Safety and Liberty
This week UK Prime Minister Kier Starmer announced plans to mandate the capacity for tech devices to block nude photos. It won't stop there.
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Jeremy Malcolm @jere.my · 09/06/2026
What safety actually means is control. Thus when you see "online safety" or "child safety" being used in policy debates, substitute the word "control" to better understand what is at stake.
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Center for Online Safety and Liberty @c4osl.org · 05/06/2026
Research behind the Drawing the Line Principles shows that resources for prosecuting real sex abuse crimes are being diverted into criminalizing personal expression such as fiction and artwork. If you don't think that's right, endorse: drawingthelineprinciples.org
Center for Online Safety and Liberty. Drawing the Line Principles. Our comparative analysis of laws, prosecutions, and policy debates across 10 national legal systems reveals a common trend: governments are blurring the line between personal expression and lived abuse. As a result, resources are being redirected from protecting children and marginalized groups to policing expression. Endorse Now! https://drawingthelineprinciples.org
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Jeremy Malcolm @jere.my · 04/06/2026
From this week's launch of the Drawing the Line Principles: is AI-generated content the same as child abuse? UNICEF is pushing for laws to include AI content in child sexual abuse definitions. I argue that shifting CSAM from an abuse crime to an obscenity crime has consequences.
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Center for Online Safety and Liberty @c4osl.org · 04/06/2026
Today we launch the Drawing the Line Principles to guide policymakers and platforms on how they should distinguish between personal expression and lived abuse in online content. Read more and endorse: drawingthelineprinciples.org
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Drawing the Line
The Drawing the Line Principles establish a line between personal expression and lived abuse in online content. Blurring that line is diverting resources from protecting children and marginalized grou...
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Center for Online Safety and Liberty @c4osl.org · 29/05/2026
🔔 Speakers announced! We’re hosting a public webinar to launch the Drawing the Line Principles: a rights-respecting, survivor-centered framework distinguishing real-world abuse from fictional, artistic, educational, and personal expression. Register now 👉 bit.ly/4uvNPNG
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Jeremy Malcolm @jere.my · 26/05/2026
Lauren Mastrosa, the author who was convicted of child abuse for publishing an 18+ ageplay fetish novel, will be putting Australian to the test by appealing the conviction. Hear me discuss this case and others at the upcoming 3 June webinar pinned to my profile. www.9news.com.au/national/cha...
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Charity worker appeals conviction over child abuse book
An author who penned a taboo novel containing sexualised content involving a teen pretending to be a toddle...
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Jeremy Malcolm @jere.my · 26/05/2026
Where should society draw the line between sexual abuse content, and fantasy content such as fiction and artwork? Join as we launch the Drawing the Line Principles: a rights-respecting, survivor-centered framework for distinguishing between personal expression and lived abuse, at a free webinar.
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Drawing the Line Principles Launch - Center for Online Safety and Liberty
Join us on June 3 for the launch of the Drawing the Line Principles on fictional content, free expression, and child protection.
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Jeremy Malcolm @jere.my · 25/05/2026
Introduce yourself with 10 artists/bands you’ve seen live Haken Kansas Pet Shop Boys Pink Martini Pop Will Eat Itself Prodigy New Order Tangerine Dream Teenage Fanclub Yes
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Center for Online Safety and Liberty @c4osl.org · 22/05/2026
Missed us at #RightsCon? We'll be launching the #DrawingtheLine Principles online instead! Join our free webinar on June 3 for a discussion on fictional content, synthetic media, free expression, and child protection. c4osl.org/drawing-the-line-principl… #FreeExpression
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Drawing the Line Principles Launch - Center for Online Safety and Liberty
Join us on June 3 for the launch of the Drawing the Line Principles on fictional content, free expression, and child protection.
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Center for Online Safety and Liberty @c4osl.org · 22/05/2026
We're reconvening our planned workshop as a public webinar to launch the Drawing the Line Principles: a rights-respecting, survivor-centered framework for distinguishing between content that documents or facilitates real-world abuse, and fictional, artistic, educational, or personal expression.
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Drawing the Line Principles Launch - Center for Online Safety and Liberty
Join us on June 3 for the launch of the Drawing the Line Principles on fictional content, free expression, and child protection.
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Zahra Stardust @zahrastardust.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
What did the #RightsCon26 cancellation mean for sexual & reproductive rights online? I share some of the LGBTQIA+ & SRHR content that was destined for Lusaka, Zambia this week, and discuss how sexual rights are shaped by geopolitical and economic pressures. #rightscon www.srhm.org/news/defendi...
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Jeremy Malcolm @jere.my · 06/05/2026
The cancellation of @rightscon.org was not just a diplomatic incident. It was a warning about how fragile the spaces for civil society participation in Internet governance have become, and how easily governments can silence civil society resistance to online authoritarianism. jere.my/civil-societ...
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Civil society was the target of RightsCon's cancellation - Jeremy Malcolm
This is the week of the RightsCon conference that wasn’t. RightsCon, the leading international Internet and human rights conference organised by civil society group Access Now, was cancelled by the Za...
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RightsCon @rightscon.org · 01/05/2026
Following our April 29 announcement, we believe it's important to be transparent about the context that led to the decision. We want to explain, where we can, why this was made on such short notice, only days before we were set to host RightsCon. Read: www.rightscon.org/rc26-stateme...
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A statement to our community about why RightsCon 2026 will not take place in Zambia
Our official statement to the digital rights community about why RightsCon 2026 will not take place in Zambia
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Jeremy Malcolm @jere.my · 01/05/2026
Next week's Drawing the Line roundtable has been cancelled along with the rest of @rightscon.org, while news breaks of yet another artist being arrested in the UK, devices confiscated, and granted bail only on condition that she dox herself and draw only SFW content. www.reddit.com/r/kurosanji/...
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From the kurosanji community on Reddit: British Vtuber Mimi Yanagi arrested for possessing CSAM (artwork of her own model)
Explore this post and more from the kurosanji community
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Center for Online Safety and Liberty @c4osl.org · 25/04/2026
Where do we draw the line between digital expression & harm? We will explore how governments are handling AI-generated CSAM and what it means for rights, free expression, & child protection. bit.ly/3QLogJf @exshaps.bsky.social @ncacensorship.bsky.social @jere.my @accessnow.org #ILGA #RightsCon
Where do we draw the line between digital expression & harm? We will explore how governments are handling AI-generated CSAM and what it means for rights, free expression, & child protection. bit.ly/3QLogJf @exshaps.bsky.social @ncacensorship.bsky.social @jere.my @accessnow.org #ILGA #RightsCon
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Jeremy Malcolm @jere.my · 25/04/2026
How much more will citizens of so-called liberal democracies such as the UK and Australia take? No smoking or vaping. No online anonymity usage. No kinky porn. This will lead to widespread civil disobedience and backfire in all the worst ways.
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Center for Online Safety and Liberty @c4osl.org · 22/04/2026
At #RightsCon2026, COSL is hosting “Drawing the Line” (May 7, Lusaka + online). How are governments regulating fictional & AI-generated sexual content—and what does that mean for rights & child protection? Join us: c4osl.org/rightscon-2026
At #RightsCon2026, COSL is hosting “Drawing the Line” (May 7, Lusaka + online). How are governments regulating fictional & AI-generated sexual content—and what does that mean for rights & child protection? Join us: https://c4osl.org/rightscon-2026/
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Center for Online Safety and Liberty @c4osl.org · 21/04/2026
"The Parents Decide Act creates a target for hackers. Age verification requirements pressure platforms to outsource identity checks to external providers, which attackers increasingly target because the data is so valuable." c4osl.org/the-keep-kids-safe-law-th…
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The 'Keep Kids Safe' Law That Doesn't Keep Anyone Safe - Center for Online Safety and Liberty
Congress just introduced a bill requiring every American's exact birthdate just to use a phone or computer. It won't protect kids. Here's what it actually does.
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Jeremy Malcolm @jere.my · 20/04/2026
Your regular reminder that Thorn, untouchable child safety darling of governments and the tech sector, partnered with Palantir for its facial scanning technology and used it to target sex workers, and is now leading the charge for compulsory AI-based scanning of communications.
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Center for Online Safety and Liberty @c4osl.org · 17/04/2026
UK Lords just passed a ban on porn depicting incest — including step-family relations that are legal in real life. www.gov.uk/government/news/new-laws… Is it right to jail people for fictional depictions of legal acts? Commons debate next week.
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New laws to crackdown on harmful pornography
Possessing or publishing pornography depicting incest or adults pretending to be children to be criminalised and tech execs could be held liable.
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Center for Online Safety and Liberty @c4osl.org · 16/04/2026
At our RightsCon workshop, we'll explore the regulation of fictional vs. real abuse material. Our expert panel features @jere.my, @exshaps.bsky.social (@ncacensorship.bsky.social), KS Park (Open Net Korea), Mar Diez, and Shambhawi Paudel (ILGA Asia) 📍 May 7, Zambia 🔗 bit.ly/41Y9GAm
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Drawing the Line at RightsCon - Center for Online Safety and Liberty
RightsCon 2026 sheds light on new legal trends in handling fictional and AI-generated content and its implications for freedom of expression.
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Jeremy Malcolm @jere.my · 10/04/2026
What to do about offensive gen-AI pornography? Here are some options that avoid criminalizing art, fiction, and LGBTQ+ self-expression. I'll be on an expert panel to discuss this topic at RightsCon 2026 next month. You can still register to attend in person or remotely, pay what you can.
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Drawing the Line at RightsCon - Center for Online Safety and Liberty
RightsCon 2026 sheds light on new legal trends in handling fictional and AI-generated content and its implications for freedom of expression.
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Center for Online Safety and Liberty @c4osl.org · 09/04/2026
There's a trend of referring to AI-generated images as CSAM. Unless they depict a real victim, that's wrong. CSAM is a term that has real victimhood at its core. Using it for anything else weakens that focus. Read on to learn how.
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Jeremy Malcolm @jere.my · 25/03/2026
I am so excited to be joining a diverse and brilliant panel of experts at @rightscon.org for a discussion that few seem ready for: where should policymakers draw the line between personal expression such as fanart and stories, and lived abuse such as deepfakes and CSAM? c4osl.org/rightscon-20...
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Drawing the Line at RightsCon - Center for Online Safety and Liberty
RightsCon 2026 sheds light on new legal trends in handling fictional and AI-generated content and its implications for freedom of expression.
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Jeremy Malcolm @jere.my · 20/03/2026
I wrote about the deadlock over CSAM scanning in the EU: “some are welcoming the failure of the temporary extension negotiations, arguing that a mass surveillance based approach to child protection is dangerous and outmoded.” c4osl.org/march-2026-n...
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The EU's Deadlock on CSAM Scanning Isn't the End of the Fight
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Jeremy Malcolm @jere.my · 18/03/2026
PhotoDNA has been reverse-engineered, and researchers find that it's unfit for purpose: easy to circumvent, and also easy for malicious actors to contrive false CSAM matches. eprint.iacr.org/2026/486
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White-Box Attacks on PhotoDNA Perceptual Hash Function
𝑃ℎ𝑜𝑡𝑜𝐷𝑁𝐴 is a widely deployed perceptual hash function used for the detection of illicit content such as Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM). This paper presents the first mathematical description of 𝐴...
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Jeremy Malcolm @jere.my · 10/03/2026
Here’s a great entry level opportunity for an activist with real passion for fighting back against the wave of age-verification laws that are ending anonymous speech online. www.idealist.org/en/nonprofit...
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Campaign Organizer – Digital Rights & Online Privacy - Internship
We are seeking a part-time early-career digital rights advocate, policy student, or campaign organizer to help build a public interest campaign addressing a new wave of state-level online age-verifica
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Center for Online Safety and Liberty @c4osl.org · 09/03/2026
“Safety has become this keyword that justifies anything — mainly, well, censorship.” New Beyond the Filter episode digs into who gets silenced and who gets heard. c4osl.org/beyond-the-filter-sexual-… #Podcast #Censorship #Safety
“Safety has become this keyword that justifies anything — mainly, well, censorship.” New Beyond the Filter episode digs into who gets silenced and who gets heard. https://c4osl.org/beyond-the-filter-sexual-content-online-who-gets-protected-and-who-gets-policed/ #Podcast #Censorship #Safety
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Center for Online Safety and Liberty @c4osl.org · 06/03/2026
"Too often, online policy debates treat safety and freedom as a zero-sum choice: more safety is assumed to require less liberty, and more liberty is assumed to tolerate harm." c4osl.org/february-2026-newsletter #Newsletter #Freedom #Safety #Harm
"Too often, online policy debates treat safety and freedom as a zero-sum choice: more safety is assumed to require less liberty, and more liberty is assumed to tolerate harm." https://c4osl.org/february-2026-newsletter #Newsletter #Freedom #Safety #Harm
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Jeremy Malcolm @jere.my · 25/02/2026
The UK is about to criminalize incest-themed porn. There is zero doubt that this will send more people to the dark web. Governments have to accept that their quixotic attempt to be the final arbiters of Internet morality is doing far more harm than good. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Against ‘chat control’: we can’t eliminate child abuse by eliminating privacy
Banning online anonymity tools like Tor won’t stop crime. It will only drive people underground and normalize government control over the internet
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Jeremy Malcolm @jere.my · 18/02/2026
An Australian writer was just convicted of child abuse for a novel about fictional roleplay that would be legal in real life. A week earlier, UNICEF called for expanding CSAM definitions to include AI content “even without an identifiable victim.” These are not unrelated developments.
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Deepfakes, Fiction, and the Future of CSAM Law - Center for Online Safety and Liberty
CSAM is defined by victimhood. Remove the victim, and the concept becomes hollow — and its enforcement unjust.
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Jeremy Malcolm @jere.my · 11/02/2026
To make things worse, Australian authorities do not even track the difference between real child abuse cases and obscenity prosecutions like this one. As a result, nobody knows how many real child abuse cases Australia has.
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Jeremy Malcolm @jere.my · 09/02/2026
I’m OK with this.
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Center for Online Safety and Liberty @c4osl.org · 02/02/2026
“Tech-facilitated gender-based violence is not a new harm — it’s old gender violence reproduced and amplified in digital spaces, without geographical limits.” c4osl.org/beyond-the-filter-tech-fa… #Podcast #DigitalSpaces #OnlineSafety
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Beyond the Filter: Tech-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence - Center for Online Safety and Liberty
Jeremy and Brandy talk to Sofia Bonilla about tech-facilitated gender-based violence or TFGBV, including the recent Grok deepfakes scandal.
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Alec Muffett @alecmuffett.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
This does not surprise me in the slightest, I presume you know the history of Meta's internal analyses of reports to NCMEC? It's almost as if they benefit from publishing really huge mediatastic numbers that somehow misrepresent the reality and extent of challenges alecmuffett.com/article/15902
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Jeremy Malcolm @jere.my · 01/02/2026
There’s been a lot of press about an explosion of AI generated content that resembles CSAM. But the thing is, none of that reporting was true. It was based on the misclassification of a large volume of reports of real CSAM. cyberlaw.stanford.edu/letter-to-nc...
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Letter to NCMEC about AI-CSAM Report Statistics
Today, Bloomberg issued a jaw-dropping report about the hundreds of thousands of CyberTipline reports with a generative AI component that Amazon filed to the National Center for Missing and Exploited ...
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