MEGA-THREAD: Hysterical Lawmaking and Online overreach

Post by **Jim Burton** » Tue Oct 21, 2025 9:10 pm

Three people WRONGLY accused of child abuse after BT engineer accidentally crossed internet wires in street cabinet

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/37065830/ ... sed-wires/

Rapists and paedophiles whose crimes lead to birth of child to have parental rights restricted

https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/rapists-p ... 5HjdFft_2/

Malaysia - Risks of a digital childhood

https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/ ... -childhood

Post by **Jim Burton** » Sat Nov 01, 2025 5:30 pm

Australia’s social media ban is “problematic,” but platforms will comply anyway

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/202 ... -16-users/

UK Expands Online Safety Act to Enforce Preemptive Censorship For “Priority” Offenses

https://reclaimthenet.org/uk-online-saf ... ship-rules

Post by **Jim Burton** » Tue Nov 04, 2025 11:37 pm

Missouri laws for sex offenders on Halloween relaxed some after federal court ruling

https://www.kctv5.com/2025/10/28/missou ... rt-ruling/

Post by **Jim Burton** » Sat Nov 08, 2025 1:01 am

Denmark reportedly withdraws Chat Control proposal following controversy

https://therecord.media/demark-reported ... l-proposal

Reddit added to Australia's social media ban on under-16s

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn0gkg7x59go

Post by **Jim Burton** » Mon Nov 10, 2025 3:03 pm

List of sex acts banned in online pornography as UK criminalizes 'dangerous' but popular category

https://www.uniladtech.com/news/tech-ne ... 2-20251106

Resolution Submitted in Punjab Assembly to Block TikTok Over ‘Obscenity’ Concerns

https://voicepk.net/2025/09/resolution- ... -concerns/

Post by **Jim Burton** » Tue Nov 11, 2025 1:03 am

Child sex offenders would be barred from using cell phones, PO boxes under Alabama lawmaker’s bill

https://www.al.com/politics/2025/11/chi ... -bill.html

Ohio sex offenders couldn't get little libraries, pool video under new House bill

https://eu.dispatch.com/story/news/poli ... 065552007/

Police funding warning as reports of online child abuse doubles

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2yl84n5x5o

Post by **Jim Burton** » Fri Nov 14, 2025 7:17 pm

IWF welcomes Danish Presidency efforts to prevent legal gap in CSAM detection, but calls for greater ambition as negotiations move forward

https://www.iwf.org.uk/news-media/state ... e-forward/

UK seeking to curb AI child sex abuse imagery with tougher testing

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn8xq677l9xo

Pennsylvania bill seeks to close ‘loophole’ for AI-generated child sexual abuse materials

https://www.route-fifty.com/artificial- ... ls/409458/

Alabama bill seeks to block internet access for convicted child sex offenders

https://abc3340.com/news/local/proposed ... inbow-city

Post by **Jim Burton** » Mon Nov 17, 2025 9:20 pm

Committee orders interim study of HB293 on minors' access to online obscenity

https://citizenportal.ai/articles/68051 ... -obscenity

The Right should celebrate the Online Safety Act’s success

https://unherd.com/newsroom/the-right-s ... s-success/

Post by **Jim Burton** » Thu Nov 20, 2025 1:42 am

Study Finds Age Checks Fail to Stop Underage Access to Adult Sites

https://www.findarticles.com/study-find ... ult-sites/

Post by **Jim Burton** » Sat Nov 22, 2025 8:23 pm

Four-year-old boy youngest victim of online grooming, new horrifying data shows

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/f ... t-36237760

Online grooming crimes hit record high – campaigners plead with tech giants to act

https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics ... hit-record

How We Investigated the Epidemic of AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Material on the Internet

https://pulitzercenter.org/resource/how ... l-internet

Senate Passes Bill to Protect Young People from AI Generated CSAM

https://fcfreepresspa.com/senate-passes ... ated-csam/

Tech Policy Press, Moving past ‘chat control’ to solutions that truly protect kids and privacy

https://www.techpolicy.press/moving-pas ... d-privacy/

GIGAZINE, EU’s ‘Chat Control 2.0’ plan and concerns over mass scanning

https://gigazine.net/gsc_news/en/202511 ... control-2/

WebProNews, Shadows over the web: AdGuard’s battle against phantom threats to block Archive.today

https://www.webpronews.com/shadows-over ... ive-today/

The Daily Economy, Apple’s pivot on child safety

https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/app ... ld-safety/

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