MEGA-THREAD: Hysterical Lawmaking and Online overreach

[Jim Burton]

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

[Jim Burton]

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

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

[Jim Burton]

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

[Jim Burton]

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/

[Jim Burton]

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

[Jim Burton]

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

[Jim Burton]

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/

[Jim Burton]

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

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

[Jim Burton]

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/

[Jim Burton]

https://www.deccanchronicle.com/souther ... ts-1918838

Hyderabad: The Cyberabad SHE teams conducted 128 decoy operations and caught 79 persons red-handed while indulging in indecent acts at public places. Petty cases booked in 79 cases and counselled the remaining persons. The SHE teams also received 18 complaints from women victims through various modes.

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As part of preventive and awareness measures from November 15 to 21, the AHTU and SHE teams conducted awareness programs across various locations in Cyberabad and around 286 members participated, who were given awareness on human and child trafficking, eve teasing, social media harassment, child marriages, child rights, child labour, stalking, begging, cyber bullying, cyber frauds etc apart from women help line 181, Child help line 1098, Dial 100 importance, Crimes 1930 and others topics etc

https://www.brightonandhovenews.org/202 ... hief-told/

Sussex police and crime commissioner Katy Bourne was shocked to hear that boys as young as 11 were sharing indecent images.

At a performance and accountability meeting with senior Sussex Police officers, she was equally shocked to hear from Assistant Chief Constable Rosie Ross that 13 to 16-year-old white boys were a concern when it came to “contact” sexual offences.

https://sarajevotimes.com/brcko-adopted ... petrators/

After the entities, the Brcko District of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) has also adopted the Law on the Registry of Persons Convicted of Sexual Abuse of Children. The new regulation brings stricter control of perpetrators and is an important step in the protection of minors.

Brcko has harmonized its legislation with the rest of BiH and is introducing a registry of persons who have been finally convicted of sexual abuse and exploitation of children. The law clearly defines which acts enter the registry, and the emphasis is on the protection of children as a particularly vulnerable category. The regulation prohibits any contact of convicted persons with minors.