The Problems With Age Verification
It's hard to create a law about children online w…
April 22, 202549m 22s
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Show Notes
It's hard to create a law about children online without first identifying who the children are. We've written a lot about the problems that arise with mandated age verification, and a new paper by Eric Goldman, The "Segregate-and-Suppress" Approach to Regulating Child Safety Online, digs into why the entire popular approach to such laws is paradoxical and broken. This week, Eric joins us on the podcast for a discussion about why regulators should develop a wider and more thoughtful toolkit of online child safety measures.
Read the paper: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5208739