New research explores the limits of treating non-realistic animated pornography as equivalent to real sexual abuse content.| Jeremy Malcolm
LGBTQ+ content online faces growing threats: age laws, Section 230 repeal, and government censorship. Here's what you can do to fight back.| Jeremy Malcolm
Navigating legal challenges, whether business or personal, can feel overwhelming and time-consuming. It’s no wonder many people are now turning to generative AI chatbots such as ChatGPT to answer their legal questions, with greater convenience and far lower cost than traditional legal services. But despite the advances made in generative AI over the past several […]| Jeremy Malcolm
Bluesky has been melting down in a fight over controversial journalist Jesse Singal, and pedophilia allegations have been flying freely. The post Bluesky melts down over Jesse Singal appeared first on Jeremy Malcolm.| Jeremy Malcolm
Australia is one of the few countries of its size, democratic or otherwise, that doesn’t protect human rights in its constitution. Although the High Court has judicially constructed a few constitutionally implied human rights, these are very narrow. In particular, the implied freedom of speech right recognised by the High Court only extends to political […] The post Australia Versus Human Rights Online appeared first on Jeremy Malcolm.| Jeremy Malcolm
What should a social media platform do about content that is lawful, complies with the platform’s terms of service, but could be offensive to some of its users? Expecting users to deal with such content by proactively blocking it will burden and drive them away. On the other hand, burying such content leads to a […] The post Dead Dove: a content warning plugin for WordPress appeared first on Jeremy Malcolm.| Jeremy Malcolm
Did you know that bringing a comic book into Australia that contains scenes of consensual sexual bondage is illegal? That you could be arrested for doing so, under the same provision of the Customs Act that you’d be arrested for if you brought in real child sexual abuse material (CSAM)? This is just one of […] The post Drawing the Line: Australia’s Misguided War on Comics appeared first on Jeremy Malcolm.| Jeremy Malcolm
Among the many challenges that image moderators face, one is the lack of open source tooling to support their work. Platforms are forced to either fork out big sums for proprietary image moderation dashboards geared at the enterprise (such as Thorn’s Safer.io), or to reinvent the wheel by creating their own dashboards and their own […] The post Modtools Image: Open Source Image Moderation appeared first on Jeremy Malcolm.| Jeremy Malcolm
This morning I was privileged to be part of a panel event on Child Protection in an Age of End-to-End Encryption. The event, chaired by Dr Gilian Tenbergen, also featured digital forensics expert Aaron Weiss who gave an excellent presentation that you can also view directly after mine. The slides of my presentation are available […] The post Trading Privacy for Child Safety appeared first on Jeremy Malcolm.| Jeremy Malcolm
Cybersecurity is one of the few protections that the trust and safety has against wrongful investigation by law enforcement.| Jeremy Malcolm
