Anyone who wants to stop under 18s from using social media is both naive
and dangerous.
Children do not suddenly become an adult and know how the world works. it’s up to US as parents, guardians, teachers, and family members, to ensure the children in our lives can safely explore what it is to grow up.
Moreover, we are the ones who need to create an environment young people feel safe to explore the world in. That means safely discussing issues of the wider world, not hiding them from it.
Young people who are not given access to anything other than what their school/church/parents think they should are more likely to be abused, taken advantage of, and radicalized.
The amazing Mr. @mmasnick has just issued a report on the unintended consequences of internet regulation. I am already underlining.
Over the last few years, there has been an increasing drumbeat for greater internet regulation. But even the most well-intended policy approaches may have completely unexpected negative consequences that may outweigh the benefits sought by the regulation in the first place. Those benefits can be dif
Proud to join EFF, CDT, FIRE, AFP-MT, ACLU, and ACLU-MT in opposing Montana's shortsighted and overreaching TikTok ban bill:
Super excited today to release a research report that I've spent over a year working on, regarding the unintended consequences of internet regulations around the world.
The paper is not an attack on the idea of regulating the internet, but rather calling out how terrible nearly every existing attempt has been, and how much damage each attempt has been towards both competition and speech:
https://copia.is/library/unintended-consequences/
Over the last few years, there has been an increasing drumbeat for greater internet regulation. But even the most well-intended policy approaches may have completely unexpected negative consequences that may outweigh the benefits sought by the regulation in the first place. Those benefits can be dif