Regulating sexual content online has always been a challenge – how we got here

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Authors: Helen Zerlina Margetts, Cosmina L. Dorobantu
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Abstract

Finding ways to regulate sexual content online has been a challenge since the dawn of the internet. But as Helen Margetts and Cosmina Dorobantu argue, the struggles that policymakers have faced for decades have been supercharged by the dawn of Artificial Intelligence platforms like Grok, and the pushback against regulation on the basis of “free speech”.

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Freedom of Expression and Defamation Digitalization Law and Regulation Rights and Freedoms

Publication details

Publication date
30 January 2026
Language
EN