Center for Online Safety and Liberty
@c4osl.org
Empowering individuals and communities to thrive online by building safer spaces, fostering creativity, combating harm, and championing digital rights and freedom.
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Hello Bluesky! We're a new nonprofit providing fiscal sponsorship for independent projects that promote online safety and liberty.
Our four priority areas are:
* Safer Hosting
* Supporting Fans
* Cyberbullying and Abuse
* Legal Advocacy
Read more on our website and spread the word!
Our four priority areas are:
* Safer Hosting
* Supporting Fans
* Cyberbullying and Abuse
* Legal Advocacy
Read more on our website and spread the word!
“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
Automated systems don’t just make mistakes — they create real harm for real people. https://c4osl.org/january-2026-newsletter #Newsletter #ChildSafety #Automation
Politics, fear, and the free Internet - COSL Newsletter #10
c4osl.org
February 7, 2026 at 6:00 PM
“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
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
Beyond the Filter: Tech-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence - Center for Online Safety and Liberty
Jeremy and Brandy talk to Sofia Bonilla about tech-facilitated gender-based violence or TFGBV, including the recent Grok deepfakes scandal.
c4osl.org
February 6, 2026 at 8:01 PM
“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
Politics, fear, and the free Internet - COSL Newsletter #10
c4osl.org
February 6, 2026 at 6:01 PM
"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
Beyond the Filter: Tech-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence - Center for Online Safety and Liberty
Jeremy and Brandy talk to Sofia Bonilla about tech-facilitated gender-based violence or TFGBV, including the recent Grok deepfakes scandal.
c4osl.org
February 5, 2026 at 8:01 PM
“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
Politics, fear, and the free Internet - COSL Newsletter #10
c4osl.org
February 5, 2026 at 6:01 PM
"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
Beyond the Filter: Tech-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence - Center for Online Safety and Liberty
Jeremy and Brandy talk to Sofia Bonilla about tech-facilitated gender-based violence or TFGBV, including the recent Grok deepfakes scandal.
c4osl.org
February 4, 2026 at 8:02 PM
“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
Politics, fear, and the free Internet - COSL Newsletter #10
c4osl.org
February 4, 2026 at 6:01 PM
"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
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“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”
it's hard to explain how horrible and dangerous this app and the people who made it are but I tried: www.404media.co/app-for-quit...
App for Quitting Porn Leaked Users' Masturbation Habits
Hundreds of thousands of users told the app intimate details about their sexual urges, which are now exposed.
www.404media.co
January 28, 2026 at 3:09 PM
“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”
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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/
Encrypt It Already
End-to-end encryption protects the privacy of your data.
encryptitalready.org
February 3, 2026 at 8:01 PM
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
Beyond the Filter: Tech-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence - Center for Online Safety and Liberty
Jeremy and Brandy talk to Sofia Bonilla about tech-facilitated gender-based violence or TFGBV, including the recent Grok deepfakes scandal.
c4osl.org
February 3, 2026 at 8:02 PM
“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
Politics, fear, and the free Internet - COSL Newsletter #10
c4osl.org
February 3, 2026 at 6:01 PM
"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
Beyond the Filter: Tech-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence - Center for Online Safety and Liberty
Jeremy and Brandy talk to Sofia Bonilla about tech-facilitated gender-based violence or TFGBV, including the recent Grok deepfakes scandal.
c4osl.org
February 2, 2026 at 8:01 PM
“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
Politics, fear, and the free Internet - COSL Newsletter #10
c4osl.org
February 2, 2026 at 6:03 PM
"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
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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
Teenage girls who use social media daily are less likely to harm themselves and attempt suicide – one of many unmentionable realities major health surveys show
Teenage girls who use social media daily are less likely to harm themselves and attempt suicide – one of many unmentionable realities major health surveys show
Officials’ and professionals’ dismissals and distortions of the worst menaces to teenagers’ mental and physical health are inexcusable.
mikemales.substack.com
January 20, 2026 at 9:18 PM
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
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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.
"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"
Two Major Studies, 125,000 Kids: The Social Media Panic Doesn’t Hold Up
For years now, we’ve been repeatedly pointing out that the “social media is destroying kids” narrative, popularized by Jonathan Haidt and others, has been built on a foundation of…
www.techdirt.com
January 25, 2026 at 9:40 PM
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.
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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
A Measure That Would Force Big Tech To Protect Kids Online and Stop Censoring Conservatives
Just before Christmas 2025, a bipartisan coalition of U.S. senators, including Lindsey Graham, Dick Durbin, Josh Hawley, Amy Klobuchar, Marsha Blackburn and Ashley Moody, introduced legislation to sun...
www.heritage.org
January 28, 2026 at 7:53 PM
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/
Stop Trump Immigration Social Media Dragnet - Center for Online Safety and Liberty
The Trump Administration is currently trying to put rules in place for foreigners to hand over several years of social media history, […]
c4osl.org
January 30, 2026 at 4:16 PM
#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/
Stop Trump Immigration Social Media Dragnet - Center for Online Safety and Liberty
The Trump Administration is currently trying to put rules in place for foreigners to hand over several years of social media history, […]
c4osl.org
January 28, 2026 at 6:02 PM
#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/
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‼️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
We need their phones ringing off the hook: 813-213-3989, fftf.link/ICEFunding
No Funding for ICE Surveillance Tech!
fftf.link
January 28, 2026 at 3:51 AM
‼️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
We need their phones ringing off the hook: 813-213-3989, fftf.link/ICEFunding
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“Don’t be silly, of course they wouldn’t try to ban VPNs”, they said…
UK government targets VPNs in online safety consultation as Lords vote for ban
Technology Secretary Liz Kendall promises "evidence-led" approach to keeping children safe online
www.techradar.com
January 23, 2026 at 7:26 AM
“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/
Stop Trump Immigration Social Media Dragnet - Center for Online Safety and Liberty
The Trump Administration is currently trying to put rules in place for foreigners to hand over several years of social media history, […]
c4osl.org
January 26, 2026 at 10:02 PM
#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/
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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
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
No Funding for ICE Surveillance Tech!
fftf.link
January 19, 2026 at 10:40 PM
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
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
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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.
This bill has 67 senators supporting by Democrats like Bluementhal amd Schumer.
www.them.us/story/kosa-s...
www.them.us/story/kosa-s...
Lawmaker Says the “Kids Online Safety Act” Aims to Protect Kids from “The Transgender”
KOSA has bipartisan support but LGBTQ+ advocates say it would be harmful.
www.them.us
January 21, 2026 at 12:35 AM
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.
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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...
www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2026-01...
40+ tech & justice organizations call on Congress to vote NO on funding for ICE’s multi-billion dollar panopticon and to abolish the agency
Citing extraordinary abuse of power and of surveillance technologies, a coalition of over 40 tech and justice organizations has issued an urgent letter calling on Congress to vote NO on all funding fo...
www.fightforthefuture.org
January 20, 2026 at 10:08 PM
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...
www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2026-01...
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"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"
Two Major Studies, 125,000 Kids: The Social Media Panic Doesn’t Hold Up
For years now, we’ve been repeatedly pointing out that the “social media is destroying kids” narrative, popularized by Jonathan Haidt and others, has been built on a foundation of…
www.techdirt.com
January 23, 2026 at 4:16 AM
"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"