Great Stuff from Net Family News

• Lawmakers, controlling and banning kids doesn’t help May 17, 2023
  The “control paradigm” around child online safety, which researchers on three continents have been calling out for at least five years, is in full bloom now. The term comes from a 2019 book by four Australian scholars about how control and surveillance have come to define digital safety, inclusion and citizenship. (Does that give you […]
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• New clarity on child sexual exploitation online April 27, 2023
  A lot of important research insights and guidance on the forms and impact of CSE online have been published by researchers on both sides of the Atlantic recently. Here are some key findings pulled together in one place with links to academic sources and resources for better prevention education…. “Stranger danger” is just as problematic […]
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• Game-changer: Child rights-by-design April 11, 2023
  Even though the United States is the only country on the planet that hasn’t ratified the nearly 34-year-old UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, US-based companies that serve kids and teens around the world no longer have any excuse not to uphold their rights. Why is that the case? Not “only” because young […]
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• Why I struggle mightily with the new Utah law March 30, 2023
  Apologies. I am late in writing about this just-passed social media legislation in the state where I live, Utah (have to say my home state is Massachusetts). I’m late partly because I’ve been in denial. I can’t believe that laws so disrespectful of teens’ rights of privacy and participation could go on the books. And […]
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• A solution for ‘awful but lawful’ March 9, 2023
  A global solution that helps users get "awful but lawful" content like cyberbullying taken down. It's independent of the Internet industry but trusted by it as well as the people who use its apps, games and site. The post A solution for ‘awful but lawful’ appeared first on NetFamilyNews.org.
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• New global service for getting nudes off the Internet February 28, 2023
  TakeItDown, a new service to help teens get nudes and other sexting images taken down from the Internet anonymously – powered by NCMEC, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children The post New global service for getting nudes off the Internet appeared first on NetFamilyNews.org.
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• Then there’s the flip side of ChatGPT February 27, 2023
  ChatGPT: What about the kids? Anybody heard of "safety by design"?! The whole public conversation about generative AI, search chatbots, the great Bing-Google race and even the creepiness has all been among and about adults. But if smart adults are getting creeped out, how about the impact on children? The post Then there’s the flip […]
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• For SID 2023: What youth want ‘online safety’ to teach February 7, 2023
  It’s Safer Internet Day – the 20th one. The first, in 2004, was celebrated by 13 EU countries and Australia, this year’s being marked in 180 countries and territories. There couldn’t be a better way for NetFamilyNews to mark the day than to show how young people themselves have reimagined the teaching of Internet safety, […]
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• ChatGPT for media literacy training February 6, 2023
  You may’ve heard about ChatGPT. It reached 100 million active users last month, “making it the fastest-growing consumer product in history,” according to The Economist, which may have something to do with all the headlines about it. So here’s my thinking on this quite remarkable chatbot, which, basically, is artificial intelligence that you can chat […]
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• Future safety: Content moderators and digital grassroots justice January 31, 2023
  A flash of insight occurred the other day as I was listening to a conversation between two completely remarkable lawyers: Vivek Maru, founder of Namati, the nonprofit organization behind the Global Legal Empowerment Network of more than 3,000 organizations and 13,043 individuals in 170+ countries, and Preeta Bansal, who was general counsel and senior policy […]
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