Campaigns Archives - Center for Online Safety and Liberty

June 9, 2026June 9, 2026Age verification

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 […]

June 4, 2026June 4, 2026Drawing the Line, Events

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 […]

May 24, 2026May 24, 2026Age verification, Campaigns

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.

April 16, 2026May 3, 2026Age verification, Campaigns, Surveillance

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 […]

March 24, 2026May 7, 2026Drawing the Line, Events

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 […]

March 12, 2026April 30, 2026Drawing the Line

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 […]

February 17, 2026February 17, 2026Drawing the Line

Deepfakes, Fiction, and the Future of CSAM Law

On February 10, 2026, Australian author Lauren Ashley Matrosa was convicted of possessing and distributing child abuse material. However, no children were […]