More teen social media bans, nudify ads nixed and Rudd remembered
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New and emerging internet policy and online speech regulation
More than 20 US civil society organisations have written a joint letter against the Stop CSAM Act — which seeks to hold tech platforms accountable for child sexual abuse material — after it advanced through a Senate Judiciary Committe yesterday. The Internet Society, Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Center for Democracy and Technology have all signed, claiming that the bill’s “vague liability provisions” pose risks to privacy and security.
France looks like it will follow Australia and other countries in pushing for a social media ban for users under 15. President Emmanuel Macron made his clearest public comments yet following the stabbing of a teaching assistant on the outskirts of Paris, saying he would try for “a few months to achieve European mobilisation” for a teen ban before doing so alone. It’s the third show of online safety impatience in fortnight following the suspension of Pornhub and the self-claimed victory for the banning of #SkinnyTok (both EiM #294). Seems like something is in the red wine.