Listen "New Year’s Message / From the Vault: Age Verification"
Episode Synopsis
Host Corbin Barthold offers some end-of-year reflections on the moral panic over kids’ use of social media and AI. Then we revisit Episode 405 (“No, Internet Age Verification Has Not Been ‘Solved’,” Apr. 30, 2025), in which Prof. Eric Goldman discusses his paper “The ‘Segregate-and-Suppress’ Approach to Regulating Child Safety Online.”Links:This Country Banned Social Media for Young Teens. Here’s how They’re Defying It.Australia’s Social Media Ban Goes Into Effect as Pretty Much Everyone Realizes It’s a Total MessThe “Segregate-and-Suppress” Approach to Regulating Child Safety OnlineTech Policy Podcast 417: Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton Is Wreaking Havoc
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