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Tech Policy Podcast

405: No, Internet Age Verification Has Not Been “Solved”

Apr 30, 2025
49:21

Eric Goldman (Santa Clara Law) discusses his new paper, “The ‘Segregate-and-Suppress’ Approach to Regulating Child Safety Online.”

Topics include:

  • The many kinds of online age-verification law
  • Age verification as an information problem
  • Fancy tech as deus ex machina
  • Data collection today; state surveillance tomorrow
  • What about devices and app stores?
  • The internet and Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
  • Child safety: it takes a village
  • The parental consent nightmare

Links:

The “Segregate-and-Suppress” Approach to Regulating Child Safety Online

Age-Verification Laws Are a Verified Mistake

Tech Policy Podcast 354: Online Age Verification (Sucks)

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