379: Child Online Safety Legislation as Bright Shiny Object

Tech Policy Podcast

Alice Marwick (UNC-Chapel Hill) discusses her new paper, “Child Online Safety Legislation: A Primer.”

If you’re wondering, the article Corbin quotes at the top of the show is Zephyr Teachout, Ending Big Tech’s Child Exploitation (Compact Magazine).

Topics include:

• Moral panic in the technical sense
• The Kids Online Safety Act: not about kids, not about safety
• Once more, with feeling: correlation is not causation
• “Harmful content”: no one knows what it means, but it’s provocative
• Care about kids? Center them, not technology

Links:

Child Online Safety Legislation: A Primer

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