This report analyzes international, federal, and state level legislation to protect child safety online. While well-meaning, this legislation is driven by moral panic rather than empirical evidence, is unlikely to help young people, and will harm privacy and free expression.
A collaboration between the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University, the Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life at UNC Chapel Hill, and the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University.
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Source: Child Online Safety Legislation (COSL) – A Primer · The Bulletin of Technology & Public Life