Don’t Delete Art Editor-at-Large Emma Shapiro sits down with renowned artist Alphachanneling for a powerful conversation about censorship, suppression, and survival in today’s algorithm-driven digital landscape. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bjwy-9vu2dE #Art #Censorship #FreeExpression

After years of activist pressure, lawsuits, and bad press Ring made much needed reforms. Now, they’re pivoting back to mass police surveillance as a business model. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

"Identity verification efforts like these mislead people into thinking you’re more protected. Computer scientists have long sounded the alarm that a central database of thousands of ID documents will always be a lucrative target for attackers." https://www.therage.co/persona-age-verification/

"Think twice about what you post and do on the Internet so you can stay out of sight of ICE’s radar. Be cautious, be safe, and remember the ICE age will melt." https://c4osl.org/living-under-the-ice-age-how-the-agency-is-surveilling-people-and-what-you-can-do-to-prevent-it/

"In this ongoing discussion on 'internet safety,' it is important to pay attention to who is being protected. Certainly not the users; the marginalized workers, or the young women. Not Dahl, or her family." https://www.404media.co/grok-doxing-real-names-birthdates-siri-dahl/ @siridahl.com #Grok #Dox

"It is important that in this age of constant surveillance that citizens monitor what we say or post online." https://c4osl.org/living-under-the-ice-age-how-the-agency-is-surveilling-people-and-what-you-can-do-to-prevent-it/

Scoop: Ring's CEO told staff Search Party is not going to be just for dogs, according to a leaked email I obtained. Said it is "first for finding dogs" before suggesting it would be expanded to be used for crime: www.404media.co/leaked-email...

An Australian writer was just convicted of child abuse for a novel about fictional roleplay that would be legal in real life. A week earlier, UNICEF called for expanding CSAM definitions to include AI content “even without an identifiable victim.” These are not unrelated developments.

Breaking news: 50 million questionable content moderation decisions revised after 50 million questionable appeals processes. digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/two-...

"American prisons have never been much for the First Amendment, and now, the Trump administration is exporting prison-style censorship to the general population."

Australia’s Social Media Ban Is Isolating Kids With Disabilities—Just Like Critics Warned We've been covering Australia's monumentally stupid social media ban for kids under 16 since before it went into effect. We noted how dumb the whole premise was, how the rollout was an immediate mess, how a…

"In late 2025, reports have been shared stating ICE is taking steps to implement surveillance programs to monitor social media activity across Instagram, TikTok, X, and Facebook." https://c4osl.org/living-under-the-ice-age-how-the-agency-is-surveilling-people-and-what-you-can-do-to-prevent-it/

"ICE has come under massive scrutiny for confronting and detaining undocumented with no criminal history, legal immigrants, or U.S. citizens in manners that are violent and dangerous." https://c4osl.org/living-under-the-ice-age-how-the-agency-is-surveilling-people-and-what-you-can-do-to-prevent-it/

Here's a longer piece about Joseph Gordon-Levitt's bizarre support of 230 repeal. We're collecting comments on a letter to him here: www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/jose...

A "myriad of trigger warnings" in a fictional kink novel for adults failed to save its author from being prosecuted for "child abuse". https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/feb/10/sydney-author-lauren-mastrosa-tori-woods-guilty-child-abuse-daddys-little-toy-ntwnfb #Fiction #FreeExpression

Tell me more about how school surveillance is about safety.

Congress says it wants to empower parents online. But the Kids Off Social Media Act would do the opposite—by forcing Big Tech to decide how families use the internet.

“No matter how Ring and other surveillance tech companies may downplay it, there’s no world in which finding lost dogs is the final end-use for this technology.”

We’re now entering the 30th anniversary of Section 230 and there’s a bipartisan effort to repeal it- which will mean free speech no more for the internet. We’ll be getting into it this week- for now, get those phones ready to fire up and call your reps: www.whatissection230.org

“We are excited and privileged to share with you the news that COSL will be represented at RightsCon 2026, the world’s leading summit on human rights in the digital age, which is being held this year in Lusaka, Zambia.” https://c4osl.org/january-2026-newsletter #Newsletter #RightsCon

“False Positives, Real Harm: When Child Safety Systems Get It Wrong.” Automated systems don’t just make mistakes — they create real harm for real people. https://c4osl.org/january-2026-newsletter #Newsletter #ChildSafety #Automation

“Placing the burden of safety on victims instead of platforms isn’t protection — it’s a failure of governance.” https://c4osl.org/beyond-the-filter-tech-facilitated-gender-based-violence/ #Podcast #OnlineSafety #Victims #Deepfakes

"Once again COSL has an opening for an Activist to join our team to help drive strategic, high-impact advocacy initiatives." https://c4osl.org/january-2026-newsletter #Newsletter #Volunteer #JoinUs #Hiring

“Once a non-consensual image is out there, manipulated or not, the harm doesn’t end. It follows people — psychologically, socially, and economically.” https://c4osl.org/beyond-the-filter-tech-facilitated-gender-based-violence/ #Podcast #Deepfakes #OnlineSafety

"Participants also endorsed a consensus statement that directly addressed the need for policymakers to use an evidence-based and human rights centre approach when addressing child sexual abuse (CSA)" https://c4osl.org/january-2026-newsletter #Newsletter #HumanRights #CSA #Science

“AI didn’t invent image-based abuse — it made it faster, cheaper, more realistic, and accessible to far more people.” https://c4osl.org/beyond-the-filter-tech-facilitated-gender-based-violence/ #Podcast #AI #OnlineSafety #Deepfakes

"If we allow fear to govern our Internet, we will soon find that it governs far more than our screens. It will govern our borders, our streets, and our ability to speak without permission." https://c4osl.org/january-2026-newsletter #Newsletter #Fear #HumanRights #FreeSpeech

“An app that purports to help people stop consuming pornography has exposed highly sensitive data, including its users’ masturbation habits. Some of the data exposed includes the users’ age, how often they masturbate, and how viewing pornography makes them feel …many of them are minors”

We all deserve stronger privacy protections online, and end-to-end encryption is one of the strongest tools to do so. Companies should make it the default more often, rather than optional (or unavailable). encryptitalready.org/

“With the tools available today, preventing this kind of abuse at scale is entirely possible. Not doing so is a choice.” https://c4osl.org/beyond-the-filter-tech-facilitated-gender-based-violence/ #Podcast #Abuse #DigitalSpaces #OnlineSafety

"Sexual panic, moral panic, national-security panic — these narratives are deliberately braided together to justify surveillance, censorship, and coercive state power." https://c4osl.org/january-2026-newsletter #Newsletter #surveillance #censorship #SexPanic #MoralPanic #NationalSecurity

“Tech-facilitated gender-based violence is not a new harm — it’s old gender violence reproduced and amplified in digital spaces, without geographical limits.” https://c4osl.org/beyond-the-filter-tech-facilitated-gender-based-violence/ #Podcast #DigitalSpaces #OnlineSafety

"Authoritarian politics does not begin with laws. It begins with fear. Fear is the raw material of extremism: fear of disorder, fear of outsiders, fear of moral decay, fear of losing control." https://c4osl.org/january-2026-newsletter #Newsletter #Politics #Fear

There’s anecdotal evidence in Australia, where under 16 yos have been excluded from social media, that mental health services are getting more demand for help from this age group

Every single time someone says they are gonna "fix" the internet for kids they really mean they want to make it harder for people like me to connect. Without the internet I would not be here.

The Heritage Foundation is seeking to enact its Project 2025 goal of repealing Section 230. This would give the government complete control over online speech. It would “help stop censoring conservatives” in that the Trump admin would have full ultimate control over all information we consume online

#Petition: Tell the Trump Administration to stop infringing on the #FreeSpeech rights of foreign citizens looking to come visit the US https://c4osl.org/stop-trump-immigration-social-media-dragnet/

#Petition: Tell the Trump Administration to stop infringing on the #FreeSpeech rights of foreign citizens looking to come visit the US https://c4osl.org/stop-trump-immigration-social-media-dragnet/

‼️URGENT‼️: We only have until FRIDAY to shut down the ICE funding bill in the Senate. We need their phones ringing off the hook: 813-213-3989, fftf.link/ICEFunding

“Don’t be silly, of course they wouldn’t try to ban VPNs”, they said…

#Petition: Tell the Trump Administration to stop infringing on the #FreeSpeech rights of foreign citizens looking to come visit the US https://c4osl.org/stop-trump-immigration-social-media-dragnet/

ICE is about to run out of funding. Your reps could vote NO so that ICE and its surveillance panopticon shuts down. Call them using our easy call tool at +1 813-213-3989 or via fftf.link/ICEFunding

We’ve been speaking out against KOSA since it was introduced in 2022 by Marsha Blackburn, a bigot and outspoken advocate for censoring trans people off the internet in effort to “protect children from the transgender in this culture.” KOSA has ALWAYS been about censorship and suppression.

40+ tech and justice orgs including @18millionrising.bsky.social @accessnow.org @stopspyingny.bsky.social and @ultraviolet.bsky.social demand lawmakers take swift action to stem the tide on ICE violence and the tech and data spending that help it spread! www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2026-01...

"Haidt’s claims of inherent harm are not well-founded, and the policy proposals to ban kids entirely from social media are a bad idea. For older teenage boys, having no social media was associated with *worse* outcomes than having too much of it"

#Petition: Tell the Trump Administration to stop infringing on the #FreeSpeech rights of foreign citizens looking to come visit the US https://c4osl.org/stop-trump-immigration-social-media-dragnet/

#Petition: Tell the Trump Administration to stop infringing on the #FreeSpeech rights of foreign citizens looking to come visit the US https://c4osl.org/stop-trump-immigration-social-media-dragnet/

42 online safety organizations, experts and bereaved families, have come together to collectively oppose a social media ban in the UK. https://www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpwn1vjy0y5o.amp #Under16 #SocialMediaBan

Irish authorities, at least, may be finally stepping away from wasting sex crime prosecution resources on anime fans.

Always inspired by the fearless leadership of @wyden.senate.gov our playbook reflects his approach to child protection. Ignore predators is enabling predators.