New Year’s Message / From the Vault: Age Verification

Host Corbin Barthold offers some end-of-year reflections on the moral panic over kids’ use of social media and AI. Then we revisit Episode 405 (“No, Internet Age Verification Has Not Been ‘Solved’,” Apr. 30, 2025), in which Prof. Eric Goldman discusses his paper “The ‘Segregate-and-Suppress’ Approach to Regulating Child Safety Online.” Links: This Country Banned Social Media for Young Teens. Here’s how They’re Defying It. Australia’s Social Media Ban Goes Into Effect as Pretty Much Everyone Realizes It’s a Total Mess The “Segregate-and-Suppress” Approach to Regulating Child Safety Online Tech Policy Podcast 417: Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton Is Wreaking Havoc

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New Year’s Message / From the Vault: Age Verification is an episode from Tech Policy Podcast by TechFreedom.

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This episode was published on Dec 29, 2025.

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