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Jeremy Malcolm @jere.my · 01/10/2026

Catch me in Kathmandu next week at this workshop on online harms and queer expression – or catch the livestream.

Jeremy Malcolm @jere.my · 24/09/2026

The Drawing the Line coalition recommends that AI produced images that do not depict real victims should not be referred to as CSAM: drawingthelineprinciples.org. Following this advice would avoid the need to use the phrase “‘actual’ CSAM”.

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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 · 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

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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…

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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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Jeremy Malcolm @jere.my · 31/08/2026

It’s not legal, it’s just not CSAM, becsuse that’s a crime that requires a real victim. If it resembles CSAM it is still likely to be judged obscene, which makes it still illegal in just about every imaginable circumstance other than private possession in the home.

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Jeremy Malcolm @jere.my · 29/08/2026

That would likely also be unconstitutional, though. The amicus brief that I co-authored for the Anderegg case (linked here) explains that all of the reasoning behind possession in the home being protected also applies, and probably more so, to production in the home. c4osl.org/cosl-files-a...

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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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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

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Jeremy Malcolm @jere.my · 29/05/2026

Or we could have (and we do) safeguards to ensure that these systems (search engines or AI) don’t expose sensitive personal information in actual use. Leaping instead straight to “governments should prohibit these systems outright” is hardly a right-neutral act and could cause much of its own harm.

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Jeremy Malcolm @jere.my · 29/05/2026

So by the same reasoning, search engines are also a mass invasion of privacy by design and should be banned through the same imposition of state force that Amnesty is recommending for generative AI systems?

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Jeremy Malcolm @jere.my · 29/05/2026

Privacy seems to be just a convenient legal framework for Amnesty to use to express broader social concerns about generative AI (market power, labour displacement, environmental cost, etc). If an authors rights group issued this report they would use copyright instead. Neither seems that compelling.

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Jeremy Malcolm @jere.my · 29/05/2026

Honestly it is a little embarrassing for Amnesty to put its name to this. It moved awfully quickly from the proposition that privacy rights can apply to information in public spaces to the conclusion that machine learning systems drawing on such information are inherently a mass privacy violation.

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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

Yes I wrote a contribution saying that the proposed reforms would go in the right direction, but that criminal law is inconsistent with them and needs to be updated also.

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Jeremy Malcolm @jere.my · 26/05/2026

Books don’t need to be submitted for classification, however you do make an excellent point. Before a prosecution is commenced, the police should be required to have the content classified which would also give the author a right to be heard. I made a similar point here.

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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

The launch will feature expert panelists from across the globe: Don't Delete Art editor @exshaps.bsky.social, Shambhawi Paudel from @ilgaworld.bsky.social Asia, Mish Pony from @scarletalliance.bsky.social, and lawyer-activist Mar Diez. Can't make the webinar? You can check out the principles here.

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Drawing the Line – Drawing the Line Between Personal Expression and Lived Abuse

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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

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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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Jeremy Malcolm @jere.my · 12/05/2026

Yeah, the facts are, like hundreds of others including other trust and safety colleagues, Aaron used to follow me until he was bullied into unfollowing. Whoopty-do.

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Jeremy Malcolm @jere.my · 12/05/2026

So? You may dislike my work, but that doesn’t mean others should be harassed simply over following me. Follow policing is toxic nonsense and you are being ridiculous.

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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)

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Jeremy Malcolm @jere.my · 30/04/2026

Good to know, but this leaves my question unanswered. If Thorn really has changed since its days working with Palantir and no longer supports compulsory AI scanning, it should say so. Bring a human rights advocate on board, such as the IWF used to have as its Chair. The child safety field needs it.

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Jeremy Malcolm @jere.my · 30/04/2026

In the interests of transparency, are you still working for Thorn and engaging in this thread to do its PR? If so, you could just address the issue directly: does Thorn support a permanent regulation that would require, rather than just permit, the use of AI classifiers in private communications?

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Jeremy Malcolm @jere.my · 29/04/2026

I am all for nuance, but there is pretty strong evidence that Thorn also had a hand in the permanent proposal put forward by the Commission for ongoing compulsory AI-based scanning, beyond the temporary derogation. www.lemonde.fr/en/les-decod...

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The EU fight against child pornography stokes fears of widespread online surveillance

A controversial regulation arriving before the EU Parliament is being pushed by a network of tech giants and security services, whose interests go far beyond child protection. Its opponents fear it op...

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