3+ hour, 24+ min ago  (323+ words) It's nearly the end of 2025, and'half of the US'and'the UK'now require you to upload your ID or scan your face to watch "sexual content." A'handful of states'and'Australia'now have various requirements to verify your age before you can create a social…...

1+ week, 10+ hour ago  (758+ words) The push is part of a broader EU effort. The Commission is working on a harmonised "age-verification blueprint app," designed to let users prove they are old enough without revealing more personal data than necessary. The tool might become part…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (614+ words) The GUARD Act may'look'like a child-safety bill, but in practice it's an age-gating mandate that could be imposed on nearly every public-facing AI chatbot'from customer-service bots to search-engine assistants. The GUARD Act could force countless AI companies to collect sensitive…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (658+ words) It appears that the illiberal, transphobic pipe dream of banning all pornography has reached an enterprising group of far-right Christian nationalist Republicans in Michigan who want to impose the moralistic agendas of a small few on the overwhelming majority of…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago  (948+ words) New data from the UK's age verification rollout provides hard evidence of what internet governance experts have been warning about for years: these laws don't protect children'they systematically drive users from regulated, compliant platforms to unregulated, non-compliant ones while accomplishing…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (213+ words) And let's be clear: these state laws are not outliers. They are part of a growing political movement to redefine terms like "obscene," "pornographic," and "sexually explicit" as catchalls to restrict content for both adults and young people alike. What…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago  (177+ words) Online service providers must make a judgement about whether the content they host is harmful to children, and if so, address the risk by implementing a number of measures, which'includes, but is not limited'to: To do this, all users on…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago  (321+ words) There remains little to no actual evidence that an outright ban will be helpful, and plenty to suggest it will be actively harmful to many. But now Australia has decided to double down on the stupid, announcing that YouTube will…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago  (971+ words) The Supreme Court this morning took a chainsaw to the First Amendment on the internet, and the impact is going to be felt for decades going forward. In the FSC v. Paxton case, the Court upheld the very problematic 5th Circuit ruling…...

6+ mon, 1+ week ago  (723+ words) And now we're doing this: intermingling children in a massive criminal database for no other reason than they (or their parents) weren't born in the United States. Here's Dhruv Mehrotra with more details at Wired: The United States'government has collected'DNA'samples…...