“We are in a time of conflicts started by rich men, amid an ecological collapse, and our concern is children being online? ... Age gating punishes the young for crises they did not create.” - Read more from Dr. Jean Linis-Dinco in our new Speaking Freely interview, here: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/speaking-freely-dr-jean-linis-dinco
Speaking Freely: Dr. Jean Linis-Dinco

Dr. Jean Linis-Dinco is an activist-researcher working at the intersection of human rights and technology. Jean earned her PhD in Cybersecurity from the University of New South Wales, Canberra, where she exposed how governments weaponized propaganda and disinformation during the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar. She currently serves as the Digital Rights Advisor for the Manushya Foundation.

Electronic Frontier Foundation
Republican Against Child Marriage Ban Calls Teens ‘Ripe, Fertile’

Lawmaker Jess Edwards opposed a child marriage ban and described teens as being of a “ripe, fertile“ age.

Newsweek