Today, the Senate unanimously passed the TAKE IT DOWN Act, which was introduced by U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.). The legislation criminalizes the publication of non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII), including AI-generated NCII (or “deepfake revenge pornography”), and requires social media and similar websites to implement procedures to remove such content within 48 hours of notice from a victim.

Launching at the 2025 State of the Net Conference, the Alliance for a Safe Online Future brings together more than a dozen child safety groups working to stop online harms and exploitation of children. 

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It's no longer a choice whether children will use the internet - it's a fact of life. And it's our responsibility to make sure they can do so safely. The Alliance for a Safe Online Future will be an online information portal to coordinate information sharing to help facilitate policy changes to hold digital platforms accountable and keep children safe from online threats like trafficking, sextortion, AI deepfakes and scams, overbroad safe harbor immunities, and lack of meaningful guardrails for AI.

Ofcom has today fined video sharing platform, MintStars Ltd, £7,000 for failing to adequately protect children from accessing online pornography. 

Now that the 119th Congress has convened, there’s little question that the Big Tech lobbying machine will be back in full force to thwart renewed efforts to pass critical legislation designed to protect minors from harmful content and activity on social media.

Many parents were already worried about their kids being exposed to false information and other harmful content on social media before Meta’s surprise decision to drop its fact-checkers.

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Now, there’s reason to fear things are going to get even worse.

As countries around the world race to counter the tech industry’s ever-expanding influence, one issue in particular has become a major rallying cry: protecting children online. And Australia just put itself out front.