Recent Blog Posts
[Article] Nerd Harder: A Typology of Techno-Legal Solutionist Logics in Child Online Safety Laws - Co-authored with Lorcan Neill and Evan Ringel, our project examines recently enacted state-level child online safety laws (COSLs) and demonstrates how different techno-legal solutionist logics manifest in these legislative efforts. Our analysis demonstrates three interdependent patterns: (1) the checklist fallacy (reducing safety to discrete technical features), (2) the false promise of age verification (assuming identity verification […]
2025 First Amendment Day - The UNC Center for Media Law and Policy will celebrate its sixteenth annual First Amendment Day on Wednesday, October 8, 2025. This campus-wide, daylong series of events is designed to both celebrate the First Amendment and explore its role in the lives of Carolina students. As always, First Amendment Day is observed during National Banned Books Week. Join […]

