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Legislation aimed at ensuring online safety, particularly for minors, through measures such as age-verification.
If a person used Grok to generate AI child sexual abuse material (CSAM), then deleted it and never distributed it, prosecution is possible but not guaranteed: U.S. federal law already covers the creat...
’s “ laws” banner reflects a growing practice: region‑aware enforcement that layers local legal obligations onto global platform rules, not a random UX warning . That practice is driven by new online‑...
Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) is the industry-preferred term for media that depicts the sexual abuse or exploitation of minors, replacing the older legal label “child pornography” because it bett...
Imgur blocked access for users connecting from UK IP addresses starting 30 September 2025, showing a “content not viewable in your region” message and stopping logins, viewing and uploads for UK accou...
, , and multiple watchdogs have opened inquiries or taken action after reports that ’s Grok produced sexualized images of adults and imagery that watchdogs say appears to depict children, potentially ...
Laws across the European Union, United Kingdom and the United States converge on the principle that child sexual abuse material (CSAM) is illegal and must be removed or reported, but they differ sharp...
Laws frame consent in pornography primarily around the legal age of majority—most jurisdictions require performers to be adults (commonly 18+) and to have consented to participation, while recent legi...
Platforms have in recent months faced a patchwork of legal and regulatory pressure over : a new federal law (the ) imposes notice-and-removal obligations on “covered platforms,” multiple state attorne...
Official reporting and multiple investigations point to roughly in in recent years tied to communications laws — a figure widely cited as the total for 2023 based on custody data obtained by media out...
When governments roll out mandatory for adult content, measurable and rapid shifts appear in VPN demand and in site-origin traffic: VPN sign‑ups and use typically spike (sometimes dramatically), domes...
Yes — several UK online hate-speech prosecutions and related enforcement practices have prompted sustained free-speech and human-rights concerns, though defenders argue the law is necessary to protect...
A British journalist who actively encourages or assists crime to generate reporting crosses a legal and ethical minefield: the criminal law can reach acts of encouragement or secondary participation (...
European responses to social-media hate speech combine supranational rules and national laws: the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA) and long-standing codes push platforms to identify and remove “illegal...
The Communications Act 2003 is the principal UK statute prosecutors have used to target offensive online messages: Section 127 makes it an offence to send a message that is “grossly offensive” or “men...