What I Learned Building Age Verification for a Platform With a Billion Users
A few years ago I sat in a room where a small group of people decided how a platform with over a […]
Tag: Digital Rights
What Do Sex Ed and Digital Literacy Have in Common?
When we choose to prohibit instead of prepare, young people navigate the risk anyway. They just do it without guidance to make informed decisions. Abstinence-only education showed us this. The evidence on age verification is already showing us the same thing.
The ‘Keep Kids Safe’ Law That Doesn’t Keep Anyone Safe
We’ve all done it. Mindlessly typed in your birthday on a website asking you to verify your age. Maybe you felt a […]
Beyond the Filter: Australia’s Under 16 Social Media Ban
This episode discusses Australia’s groundbreaking social media minimum age law, which mandates that platforms block users under 16. The conversation explores the […]
Drawing the Line Webinar
This webinar held on 10 December 2025 was for the the global launch of the Drawing the Line Watchlist—a groundbreaking report examining […]
Stop State-Sanctioned Revictimization: An Open Letter to the Australian Parliament
In 2016, Australian police ran a secret online operation that shocked the world.For eleven months, Task Force Argos controlled Childs Play, one […]