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

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

JRdes/ShutterstockWhen Tim Berners-Lee invented the world wide web, he articulated his dream for the internet to unlock creativity and collaboration on a global scale. But he also wondered “whether it will be a technical dream or a legal nightmare”. History has answered that question with a troubling “both”. The 2003 Broadway musical Avenue Q brilliantly captured this duality. A puppet singing about the internet cheerfully begins the chorus “the…