Regulating sexual content online has always been a challenge: how we got here
Margetts, H. & Dorobantu, C.
(30 January 2026)
Regulating sexual content online has always been a challenge: how we got here.
British Politics and Policy at LSE.
(30 January 2026)
Regulating sexual content online has always been a challenge: how we got here.
British Politics and Policy at LSE.
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”.