405: No, Internet Age Verification Has Not Been “Solved”
Apr 30, 2025•49 min•Ep. 405
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Episode description
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
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