379: Child Online Safety Legislation as Bright Shiny Object

Alice Marwick (UNC-Chapel Hill) discusses her new paper, “Child Online Safety Legislation: A Primer.”If you’re wondering, the article Corbin quotes at the top of the show is Zephyr Teachout, Ending Big Tech’s Child Exploitation (Compact Magazine).Topics include:Moral panic in the technical senseThe Kids Online Safety Act: not about kids, not about safetyOnce more, with feeling: correlation is not causation“Harmful content”: no one knows what it means, but it’s provocativeCare about kids? Center them, not technologyLinks:Child Online Safety Legislation: A PrimerTech Policy Podcast #342: Save the Children (From State Social Media Laws)