Taylor LorenzMar 2
I have a piece out in The Guardian today on how the internet is becoming a fully surveilled digital panopticon and why we need to fight back
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/02/ban-children-social-media-biometic-data-surveilled
The world wants to ban children from social media, but there will be grave consequences for us all

Age-verification systems require collecting sensitive data to support the biometric information. In no time, the internet will become a fully surveilled digital panopticon, says technology journalist Taylor Lorenz

The Guardian
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It would be far more feasible to ban politicians from the use of social media than to do so for teenagers. Better yet, ban editorial control and advertising from the services and turn them back from social media to social networks.
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Mar 2 at 6:30pmWeb