Stuck in the Middleware with Youth

In this week’s roundup of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Ben is joined by Vaishnavi J, former head of youth policy at Meta and founder and principal of Vyanams Strategies, a product advisory firm that helps companies, civil society, and governments build safer age appropriate experiences. Prior to founding Vys, she led video policy at Twitter, built its safety team in APAC and was Google's child safety polciy lead in APAC. Together Ben and Vaishnavi discuss:

• House overhauls KOSA in a new kids online safety package (The Verge)
• A nationwide internet age verification plan is sweeping Congress (The Verge)
• Grindr supports app store age-verification bill despite censorship concerns (Pink News)
• A summary of the technology sector’s response to the UK’s new online safety rules (Ofcom)
• Age Assurance Implementation Handbook (Vyanams)
• Interoperable Age Assurance (Age Verification Providers Association)
• EU's non-binding resolution around revamping child safety rules (European Parliament)
• ‘We’ll be watching’: Social media companies warned about complying with ban as teens flock to alternative apps (Crikey)
• The Salesforce of safety: Software vendors as infrastructural/professional nodes in the field of online trust and safety (Sage, Platforms & Society)
• It's their job to keep AI from destroying everything (The Verge)

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Ctrl-Alt-Speech is the podcast where we make sense of the major debates shaping online speech, platform power, content moderation and the future of the internet. It’s co-hosted by Mike Masnick (Techdirt) and Ben Whitelaw (Everything in Moderation).