Drawing the Line: protecting people without silencing expression
When online safety rules treat fiction, queer expression and survivors’ testimony as forms of abuse, who benefits, and who loses protection? This […]
Category: Drawing the Line
Moral Panic to Permanent Law: The Pattern of Fear & Censorship in Media
Every moral panic leaves a fossil record. When a society is confronted with a new medium it does not yet understand, the […]
Pornography, Harm, and the Limits of the Law
Mick Moran, chief executive of the Irish Internet Hotline and a board member of INHOPE, the international association of internet reporting hotlines, argued […]
Drawing the Line: Online Harm, Queer Expression, and Platform Governance in Asia-Pacific
October 6 at 10:15–11:15 NPT, 4:30 UTC, 14:30 AEST, 21:30 PST, October 7 at 0:30 EST Across the Asia-Pacific region, governments and […]
Medical School Berlin workshop
Perspectives on Child Sex Stories – A Panel DiscussionSeptember 28 at 7:00–9:30 BST, 8:00–10:30 CEST, 16:00–18:30 AEST, 23:00–1:30 PDT To date, little […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
False Positives, Real Harm: When Child Safety Systems Get It Wrong
When Jonas (not his real name) posted a photo of himself in sports clothes to his own Instagram account, the last thing […]