Great Stuff from Net Family News

• 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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• Mental health 2023, Part 1: Youth on algorithms January 3, 2023
  Richard Graham, a psychiatrist in London and a fellow youth advocate, tagged me in a post on LinkedIn today, and I’m glad he did. I was getting ready to post about the remarkable “ySKILLS” report published a few weeks ago, and his post not only touched on his journey as a co-author but showed how […]
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• Where did my Twitter go? And other end-of-2022 notes December 19, 2022
  What a year it has been. And what a week. Or two, almost. I’ll start with the latest, because it was a telling cap-off to 2022: On December 8, three of us – Eirliani Abdul Rahman, a survivor of and activist against child sexual abuse, Lesley Podesta representing the Young & Resilient Research Center at […]
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• Global network of Net safety regulators: Let’s think on this November 16, 2022
  In my last, pre-FOSI, post about this social media meltdown I told you I’d report back about what people would say about it at the conference. But there was actually very little said – only, rightfully, sadness for all the tech workers who’ve been laid off (my post has numbers). In his closing remarks, FOSI […]
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• Dot-com bust, 2022-style November 14, 2022
  It’s the end of an era as I head to Washington and this year’s “FOSI” – shorthand for the Family Online Safety Institute’s annual gathering of people in the Internet safety field. It’ll be interesting to see if anyone on stage tomorrow isn’t feeling this too. Stay tuned – I’ll let you know. Americans were […]
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