Did we just lose the open Internet?
Imagine being seventeen years old in 2032. You want to send a flirtatious message to your boyfriend. Before it can even leave […]
Drawing the Line Principles Launch
Where should lawmakers, platforms, and civil society draw the line between harmful sexual content that involves real victims, and personal expression such […]
What Do Sex Ed and Digital Literacy Have in Common?
When we choose to prohibit instead of prepare, young people navigate the risk anyway. They just do it without guidance to make informed decisions. Abstinence-only education showed us this. The evidence on age verification is already showing us the same thing.
Photo Bombs: Social Media in the Palestine and Iran Conflicts
The conflicts that have gone on in the Middle East have always been a hot topic of discussion. People have been killed […]
Modtools.io
Modtools.io is COSL’s project to develop a suite of open source trust and safety tools that uphold safety and liberty as equal […]
The ‘Keep Kids Safe’ Law That Doesn’t Keep Anyone Safe
We’ve all done it. Mindlessly typed in your birthday on a website asking you to verify your age. Maybe you felt a […]
Drawing the Line at RightsCon
In February 2026, UNICEF issued a statement calling on countries to expand criminal law definitions of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) to […]
Children can easily become targets of dangerous people online – how can you keep them safe?
The current release of documents connected to the Jeffrey Epstein case has revived public attention on child sexual exploitation. High-profile cases like […]
When Governments Criminalize Fiction, Real Victims Pay the Price
Recent proposals in the United Kingdom to criminalize certain forms of pornography illustrate a growing policy problem: the increasing willingness of governments […]
Beyond the Filter: Sexual Content Online: Who Gets Protected and Who Gets Policed?
In the season finale of Beyond the Filter, Jeremy and Brandy are joined by Shambhawi Paudel (ILGA Asia) and Mar Díaz (digital rights […]