Kids Online Safety Act Explained - Duty of Care, Enforcement, and Emerging Tech
Release Date: 10/10/2025
Leaders in Germany & Japan Speak Out Against Legalized Prostitution
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EPISODE 85 Government leaders in Germany and Japan have spoken out boldly against legalizing prostitution. In some instances, they’ve even gone as far as to say that prostitution needs to be completely eradicated! Dani and Haley take a closer look at these stories from around the world and talk about what it means globally as well as here in the United States. There are consequences of legalizing prostitution that we’ve seen within our own country – specifically in Nevada. Survivors have united in support of Jane Doe, a Nevada sex trafficking survivor who was sex trafficked in...
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Explaining the New P*rn Law AND Is Wizz a Tinder App for Kids?
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EPISODE 84 There is a new law in the U.K. that makes it a criminal offence for pornography to depict strangulation. This new amendment to the Crime and Policing bill requires tech platforms to prevent users from seeing content involving strangulation or choking. Dani Pinter and Haley McNamara take a closer look at this new legal requirement and talk about the dangers of choking as well as the difficulty of getting a similar law passed in the U.S. They then pivot to talk about Wizz, a platform that targets teens with similar matchup features that dating apps like Tinder use. What are the...
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MAJOR Changes Coming to Character.AI
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Ending Sexploitation Podcast (Episode 83) Character.AI has announced a surprising and encouraging change to their platform that would restrict usage to 18+ users. It remains to be seen how accurate and reliable their system handles age verification, and Haley McNamara and Dani Pinter discuss the lead up to this monumental change for a major player in the AI companion bot space. Sign this petition to have other AI companies make this change! Read the NCOSE press statement on the new GUARD Act: Read the article on Mashable about this announcement from...
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Roblox Sued and Instagram “Gore”
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Roblox continues to be one of the most popular AND most dangerous online platforms for kids. Haley McNamara (CSO and Executive Director at NCOSE) is joined by Tim Nester (VP of Communications at NCOSE) to discuss the current state of Roblox safety – or lack thereof – as well as the recent lawsuits that families are filing against the gaming company. Then Tim and Haley dive into recent reports about the Instagram algorithm that has been serving up violent content that many are labeling as “gore” content. Learn more about Roblox on our Dirty Dozen List: Read the CBS News...
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OpenAI to add “Erotica”
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OpenAI’s Sam Altman has announced that adult users will be able to access “erotica” as part of their efforts to “treat adults like adults” on the platform. Is this really the best use of technological innovation? Is this where the resources and priorities of companies like OpenAI should be channeled? Haley McNamara and Dani Pinter from NCOSE chat about this new development and the disingenuous context that is attempted in this announcement. Sign this petition to call OpenAI to change this direction: Learn more about the A.I. LEAD ACT:
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Kids Online Safety Act Explained - Duty of Care, Enforcement, and Emerging Tech
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Ending Sexploitation Podcast EPISODE 80 In this special episode of the podcast, a panel of experts takes a closer look at the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) and explore the details around duty of care, enforcement, and emerging tech. This legislation is vital to ongoing efforts to protect children online, and this fantastic group of speakers explain more about the bill and why it should pass. Dani Pinter, Chief Legal Officer and Director of the NCOSE Law Center Benjamin Bull, Senior Vice President and General Counsel in the NCOSE Law Center Mary Graw, Tenured Professor at Catholic...
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2025 TIP Report – Ranking Every Country’s Efforts to Combat Trafficking
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The 2025 Trafficking in Persons Report has been released by the State Department of the United States, and Marcel van der Watt (President and CEO at NCOSE) joins Haley McNamara (Executive Director and CSO at NCOSE) and Dani Pinter (CLO and Director of the NCOSE Law Center) to talk about some of the surprises in this 25th edition of the annual report. Each year, it ranked countries into tiers based on their efforts to combat trafficking, and our team dives into why some of these rankings seem to miss the mark. They also watch and react to the recent video from Joseph Gordon-Levitt about the...
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The Collateral Damage of Meta’s AI Chatbot
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Dani Pinter (Chief Legal Officer at NCOSE) and Haley McNamara (Chief Strategy Officer at NCOSE) discuss some of the recent heartbreaking stories shared by families who have been devastated by careless and out of control A.I. Chatbots. They discuss the specific stories shared at a recent Senate hearing as well as articles and studies that show this goes beyond one-time anecdotal examples. It’s time for companies like Meta to stop viewing these families as collateral damage and to make changes to their platforms and A.I. tools that will make them safe to use! Follow Haley on X: ...
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The Truth About Fathers - Patrick Erlandson
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Tim Nester (Vice President of Communications at NCOSE) is sitting in to host this week, and he sits down with Patrick Erlandson to discuss the Truth About Fathers and their role in the fight against sexual exploitation – specifically areas of pornography and sex trafficking. Patrick’s journey into the movement to end sexual exploitation began during his time working with the United Nations Refugee Agency, where he witnessed firsthand the horrors of trafficking and exploitation. In 2018, he founded Father-Con, which is an organization that counters the lies that lead men to believe that...
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The Lure of Lies: Grooming and Recruitment in the Sex Trade - Victoria Sinis
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Victoria Sinis is the founder of Creating Gems, an organization created to help young women break free from harmful narratives about themselves. In this presentation from the 2024 CESE Summit, Victoria digs into the deceptive tactics used to lure individuals into the commercial sex trade. As a former employee at a recruitment agency for OnlyFans, Victoria shares her journey of realization, her immediate departure from the industry, and her ongoing crusade to expose these harmful practices. Gain a deeper understanding of the grooming and recruitment methods employed on a large scale for...
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EPISODE 80
In this special episode of the podcast, a panel of experts takes a closer look at the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) and explore the details around duty of care, enforcement, and emerging tech. This legislation is vital to ongoing efforts to protect children online, and this fantastic group of speakers explain more about the bill and why it should pass.
Dani Pinter, Chief Legal Officer and Director of the NCOSE Law Center
Benjamin Bull, Senior Vice President and General Counsel in the NCOSE Law Center
Mary Graw, Tenured Professor at Catholic University and Former Federal and State Prosecutor
Chris McKenna, Founder of Protect Young Eyes
TAKE ACTION: Contact your representative to pass KOSA
http://endsexualexploitation.org/PassKOSA