Jeremy Malcolm

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Warning, child exploitation imagery (according to Meta Trust & Safety AI). petapixel.com/2025/07/21/m...

One Weird Trick to Ruin the Internet - COSL Newsletter #4

"Among all the fuss over President Trump's connections to Epstein, no attention has been given to the fact that federal funding for child sexual abuse prevention—already tragically low—has been cut to zero by Trump's administration." c4osl.org/july-2025-ne... #prevention

New Law: Surrender Your Privacy to “Save” the Kids Three years ago I made a video warning about the dangers of a law that was about to be passed here in California: the “Age-Appropriate Design Code Act” would force most, if not all websites on the …

"These 'protect the children' laws do nothing of the sort. They only enable a surveillance state that has the ability to censor wrongthink, hurting children and adults alike." skepchick.org/2025/07/new-... @skepchick.org #FreeSpeech #censorship

"One of the biggest challenges in child safety is resisting the politicization of the issue," I write in the Duco 2025 Snapshot: The Trust & Safety Landscape. Read more and download the report for free: www.ducoexperts.com/duco-tnsrepo...

how quickly we went from age verification for pornography sites, to social media, to search engines. a reminder that, yet again, it is essential to listen to sex workers when they raise concerns about how technology is being tested on them.

Exactly! They are absolutely funnelling people directly into the Tor network where real CSAM is a click away. And they have nobody but themselves to blame for that.

I’ve been sounding the alarm about this trend for years but people would rather listen to conspiracy theorists about why caring about human rights in child protection is sus actually.

Impact of Texas bill SB20 on anime and manga due to obscenity concerns. Read 3 Answers from lawyers to Impact of Texas bill SB20 on anime and manga due to obscenity concerns. - Texas Communications Law Questions & Answers - Justia Ask A Lawyer

Some, like communications and internet law lawyer Jeremy Malcolm, said that even if it is "unlikely that mainstream #manga or #anime works" would be affected by the law, "there are still #constitutional questions over laws such as this" answers.justia.com/question/202... (27/?)

Beyond the Filter: Fanfic arrests in China - Center for Online Safety and Liberty In this episode, hosts Jeremy and Brandy speak with F15-H (Fish), an artist from Hong Kong now living in mainland China, about […]

"This seems to be a global puritan movement that is emerging in different places at the same time." c4osl.org/beyond-the-f... #fanfic #censorship #FreeSpeech

Age verification is coming to search engines in Australia The new rules take effect at the end of 2025.

We tried to tell people it wouldn't stop with sex or porn or whatever bogeyman was going to be used to end online anonymity.

Australia has declared that Google will now have to verify all users for age/identity.

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Yes I understand that they don’t care, and the article explains why they should.

It does to the victim, and it should to anyone who cares about them.

Age Verification Provides Neither Safety Nor Liberty - Center for Online Safety and Liberty The Supreme Court’s ruling in FSC v Paxton upholds Texas’s age verification law, risking data breaches, parental control, and free speech.

“Today’s ruling isn’t just about porn—it’s about whether we’ll sleepwalk into a surveillance state while telling ourselves it’s for the children.” c4osl.org/age-verifica...

Supreme Court allows law requiring age checks for porn sites Pornhub was among the plaintiffs challenging a Texas law that requires users of adult sites to submit personal information proving they are 18 or older.

this is bad in a variety of ways that have nothing to do with porn and everything to do with expanding invasive surveillance of every single Internet user including all adults www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Fiction or Felony? The Blurring of Art and Abuse - Center for Online Safety and Liberty An AI porn artist was sentenced to jail time today in the culmination of a major law enforcement operation. Here's why experts are concerned.

"Equating fictional content to photos and videos recorded at actual crime scenes trivializes the real suffering of the victims of those crimes. When policymakers obscure this distinction with linguistic sleight-of-hand, it should be called out as dishonest..." c4osl.org/fiction-or-f...

Fiction or Felony? The Blurring of Art and Abuse - Center for Online Safety and Liberty An AI porn artist was sentenced to jail time today in the culmination of a major law enforcement operation. Here's why experts are concerned.

EXCLUSIVE: As an AI porn creator is sentenced today following a global crackdown on fantasy art, experts in law and public health are asking: can imagined content cause real-world harm—and what are the limits and costs of a zero-tolerance approach? c4osl.org/fiction-or-f...

The on-going bad faith weaponization of “harmful to minors” to censor political speech, healthcare resources, public performance and education, and to bring an end the open internet, is the one of the great unreported stories of this year.

I’m really excited about the coalition that I’m helping to pull together to combat the conflation of artistic, fictional, and educational content with real sexual abuse, as teased in the latest @c4osl.org newsletter.

No I don’t want to take your money. Texas already imprisoned an archivist for 40 years for publishing obscene stories. Authors are next.

The issue is that calling something “obscene” puts it outside the First Amendment and there is a push to define all sexual content as obscene, starting with queer content.

Fight the Interstate Obscenity Definition Act - Center for Online Safety and Liberty The Interstate Obscenity Definition Act could wipe out adult content from the Internet at a single stroke. It's more than "just" a porn ban.

"Marginalized communities, like LGBTQ+ creators, will be hit hardest, as their expressions are often the first to be labeled 'obscene.'" c4osl.org/fight-the-in... #LGBTQ #FreeSpeech #obscenity #FreeExpression

This will be happening in America soon. I am serious.

The limits of ‘zero tolerance’ policies for animated pornographic media This article examines how policies over animation on pornographic platforms fail to take into consideration its nature as manufactured media, a genre category that now encompasses cartoons and arti...

💬 What does it mean to take a category of pornographic content, refuse to define it, and then apply incredibly hard rules over its regulation? That’s the question I tackle in my 🔥latest🔥 article on animated porn representing children and produced with digital tech www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Limits of Zero Tolerance – Animated Pornography, Platform Moderation, and Free Expression - Jeremy Malcolm New research explores the limits of treating non-realistic animated pornography as equivalent to real sexual abuse content.

In this taboo-busting podcast interview for @c4osl.org, researcher Aurélie Petit explores why platforms can’t handle animated sexuality, and how zero-tolerance policies that equate animation to CSAM or bestiality flatten nuance into danger. jere.my/the-limits-o...

Fight the Interstate Obscenity Definition Act - Center for Online Safety and Liberty The Interstate Obscenity Definition Act could wipe out adult content from the Internet at a single stroke. It's more than "just" a porn ban.

The Interstate Obscenity Definition Act would do more than just ban porn across the United States. It would also pressure Internet platforms to crack down on fan fiction, art, sex education, memoirs, and much more. Write to your representative to stop it! c4osl.org/fight-the-in...

Republicans want to redefine obscenity A new bill would ban sharing visual content that might "arouse" or "titillate."

"Since the 2018 passage of FOSTA, a bill that criminalized hosting online content that could facilitate prostitution, we've seen increasing attempts to try and censor online content" reason.com/2025/05/12/r... #FreeSpeech #censorship #OnlineSafety

Harmful to Minors - Center for Online Safety and Liberty Happy May! I’m Caden, a technologist with COSL, and on behalf of COSL, I’d like to start the month by announcing the […]

"Harmful to Minors is our new transparency archive designed to provide greater transparency when Internet content is taken down, or users are banned, on the grounds of sexuality, gender, and child safety." c4osl.org/harmful-to-m... #Transparency #HarmfulToMinors

Wikipedia challenging UK law it says exposes it to ‘manipulation and vandalism’ Wikimedia Foundation seeks judicial review of some requirements of Online Safety Act it claims may endanger safety of volunteer editors

Just an observation. When you say the law is targeting CSAM and then ends up going after Wikipedia, it is clearly misguided.

Wikimedia Foundation seeks judicial review of some requirements of Online Safety Act it claims may endanger safety of volunteer editors

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I don’t care if you hate porn. Please for the love of god don’t get stuck there cognitively.

Anti-porn legislation + how trans and NB people (even cis drag queens/kings) are being consistently described as sexually deviant = the groundwork is being laid for all queer expression to be made illegal.

Here's my colleague Caden announcing a new COSL project, HarmfultoMinors.org, a new transparency archive for content removal requests, takedowns and platform bans that are justified by the increasingly-flexible rationale of protecting minors from harm. c4osl.org/harmful-to-m...