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Kristin Alvandi

@kristinalvandi.bsky.social

Born in NY made in दिल्ली | Keeping kids safe online | all takes my own not reflecting any company I work for

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ROOST@roost.tools · 7d ago

Open safety models came gradually, then all at once! We welcome Musubi's PolicyLM into the ROOST Model Community; it’s a lightweight, text-only model designed for rapid moderation while following your rules. We also wrote this guide with Musubi on picking and routing between different models:

Welcoming Musubi's PolicyLM, and a Guide to Choosing Open Safety Models

Robust Open Online Safety Tools or ROOST is a new non-profit entity designed to address the urgent need for accessible, high-quality safety tools in the rapidly evolving digital landscape.

roost.tools

Alexios Mantzarlis@mantzarlis.com · 3w ago

i'm looking to chat with folks who overpaid for a tourist visa recently because they landed on the website in a rush searching on Google and it looked like the real deal... ping me here or at alexios at indicator dot media plsss

Kristin Alvandi@kristinalvandi.bsky.social · 3w ago

YES 💯 “Banning kids from social media has a fundamental problem: kids will find a way.” This is why you need age appropriate design - not bans - in products. www.techdirt.com/2025/10/31/k...

Kids Turn Podcast Comments Into Secret Chat Rooms, Because Of Course They Do

As anyone who has read Techdirt for any length of time knows full well, there’s been a years-long campaign to demonize kids and social media. Never mind that actual experts have said the data doesn…

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Kristin Alvandi@kristinalvandi.bsky.social · 3w ago

“The European Commission inappropriately attempted to expand its regulatory authority to reach American companies not present OR operating within its jurisdiction” Huh? Does that mean X is not going to operate in EU anymore? www.justice.gov/opa/united-s...

United States Files Request to Intervene in Case Brought by X Corp. and Elon Musk Seeking to Annul Decision by European Commission

The United States filed an application to intervene in the captioned cases, X Internet and X Holdings v. Commission, Case No. T-114/26 and Musk v. Commission, Case No. T-121/26, before the General Cou...

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🦇🎃💀 Riana-mator 💀🎃🦇@riana.bsky.social · 3w ago

So: Calm down about the First Amendment already. We do not need the Supreme Court to overrule its existing precedent. We do not need a new federal law. If you’re mad about the 7th Circuit ruling and you think people who engage with AI-CSAM belong in prison, this paper has some great news for you.

🦇🎃💀 Riana-mator 💀🎃🦇@riana.bsky.social · 3w ago

NEW RESEARCH PAPER! With Cyndie Demeocq at U of Edinburgh, today I’m releasing a paper analyzing 71 federal criminal cases, filed around the US from 2022-2025, that somehow involve AI-generated or -morphed CSAM or child obscenity. Here's the SSRN link: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Yes, It's Already Illegal: Federal Criminal Prosecutions for AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Material, 2022-2025

<div> Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is now capable of creating realistic-looking images and videos with just a text prompt. This capacity has been mi

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Tech Policy Press@techpolicypress.bsky.social · 3w ago

Tech Policy Press contributing editor Dean Jackson breaks down Meta's $17B child safety settlement — asking whether design concessions won by state AGs could survive constitutional scrutiny if imposed by law rather than private agreement.

Are the Meta Settlement Terms a Win for Kids or a Digital Rights Risk?

Analysts and advocates spent the days following the settlement considering the balance of what the parties involved won and lost, writes Dean Jackson.

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ROOST@roost.tools · 3w ago

The community of ROOST contributors has been busy over the past several weeks working on the upcoming 1.1.0 release of Coop. We have a pre-release available for testing, and would love your feedback if you’re currently deploying Coop or are interested in trying it out.

Release Coop 1.1.0 (alpha) · roostorg/coop

NoteThis is a pre-release! We would appreciate early testing and feedback of these updates to help us validate the stable 1.1.0 release. The world’s first free, open source child safety infrastruc...

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Tech Policy Press@techpolicypress.bsky.social · 3w ago

California's legislature has again passed a slate of AI bills. Their "sheer number, along with some strong and unique provisions, keep the state at the forefront of AI regulation in the United States," write Danny Tobey, Ashley Carr, and Michael Atleson of DLA Piper.

California Leads the Way With New Slate of AI Bills

Danny Tobey, Ashley Carr, and Michael Atleson from DLA Piper summarize key AI bills passed in this California legislative session.

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Vaishnavi@vaishnavi.bsky.social · last mo.

All this is important to note because unfortunately, midterms news coverage frenzy clashes directly with H1 product roadmapping season, so take a minute to digest what exactly is changing before rushing to overhaul your roadmaps.

Daphne Keller@daphnek.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This amount of parental supervision for teens' communications is ghastly. Drafters likely imagined kind parents helping an out-of-control kid. But the reality is that many, many kids have abusive parents. Imagine trying to reach out for help, but being trapped in the situation this describes.

Meta agrees to provide Supervising Parents with information concerning the amount of time their Teen User is spending on Meta SMPs, including separately for time on the Meta SMP, time using the Meta SMP’s messaging features, time viewing Longform Content (to the extent excluded from the calculation of daily limits pursuant to Section II.B.3.a.i), and the usernames of the Teen User’s social connections and individuals messaging the Teen User, and usernames of any user reported by a Teen User. In addition, Instagram will notify Supervising Parents should their Teen User engage in repeated searches for terms related to suicide, self-harm, or eating disorders, and Facebook will notify Supervising Parents should their Teen User engage in repeated searches for terms related to suicide, self-harm, or eating disorders. 2. For Teen Users, Supervising Parents will be notified on a daily basis when the Teen User communicates directly with each adult user for the first time with the Teen User and shall provide a link to the adult user’s profile to provide information such as their stated hometown or city or mutual connections, to the extent the information is publicly available.If a Teen User is enrolled in Parental Supervision, Meta shall notify the Supervising Parent if the Teen User creates or explicitly links a new secondary Meta SMP account within their Accounts Center or has been linked to a Soft Matched Account through Meta SMPs, including a link to the secondary account’s profile. Meta SMPs shall automatically apply the Supervising Parent’s approved time management settings in Section II.B and content restrictions to all explicitly linked Meta SMP accounts and all Supervised Accounts for a Teen User belonging to the same Meta SMP.
Lane Stellmaker@hipcrimevocab.net · 2mo ago

artificiality to it (in that people don't really engage in sexual conduct in that way, in those positions) and what is commonly depicted is a staged act meant to titillate and eroticize. CSAM is NOT THAT. It would NEVER BE THAT. It is NOT EROTIC. At all. It is soul-destroying, literally.

Lane Stellmaker@hipcrimevocab.net · 2mo ago

It's why I prefer CSAM to the older term "child pornography." If you hear child pornography, you think "regular pornography, but with children in it." That far far far far far sanitizes what the actual thing is. Pornography is itself a form of voyeuristic performance art. There is a degree of...

Denys Beecher@dbeecher.bsky.social · 2mo ago

TLDR: If it were real CSAM possession would be criminal because of the harm to real children, but it's not evident that there was any such harm here, and because it's obscene rather than CSAM private possession is legal because you're not protecting the community.

Denys Beecher@dbeecher.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Judges Lee and Kolar went out of their way to write a concurring opinion asking for the Supreme Court to look at this issue again in light of new tech. They want this to be illegal, they just don't think it is under current law, so knock it off with the "check Judge Lee's hard drive" cracks.

Denys Beecher@dbeecher.bsky.social · 2mo ago

There are people better qualified to comment on this (I know @hipcrimevocab.net specifically has handled 1466A cases before), but a lot of people have very bad takes on this so I'm going to try to clarify. A 🧵 This ruling is only on *possession*. Creation, distribution, etc are still illegal.

Sapling 🌱@sacredsapling.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Woke up to this news and I’m beyond disgusted. It’s a US *constitutional right* now to create and own ‘CSAM,’ as long as it was made with AI?? AI gen images are built from real images, of real children. This directly re-exploits every single CSAM survivor. (More in 🧵) #abolition #trafficking

A federal judge has ruled that the First Amendment protects an individual's right to privately possess child sexual abuse content created using Al if it does not depict a real person and remains in the home. On Tuesday, Judge John Z. Lee of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th District ruled that the First Amendment protects an individual's right to privately possess images or videos of child sexual abuse created using artificial intelligence if the material does not depict a real person and remains in the home. In his ruling, Judge Lee urged the Supreme Court to reconsider the issue of virtual abuse material of children in the age of Al, suggesting that technological advances complicate existing legal precedent. The case Lee ruled on came about in 2024 when the Department of Justice brought charges against Steven Anderegg, alleging that he used Al to create thousands of explicit images of children. He was accused of breaking federal obscenity laws by producing, distributing and possessing obscene visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct. Anderegg sought to have the possession and production charges dismissed under the First Amendment. Last year, a judge in the Western District of Wisconsin agreed to dismiss the possession charge, prompting the federal prosecutors to appeal. Lee, in his ruling upholding the lower court's decision, cited the precedent set by Supreme Court rulings from 1969 and 2002. One held that individuals have a right to possess obscenity in the privacy of their home. The other found that "virtual" child sexual abuse material, not depicting a real person is not child pornography.