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Is this the end of the open web?

2025/6/6
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通过深入探讨互联网文化和政治,Taylor Lorenz 为听众提供了对在线世界的深刻分析。
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Taylor Lorenz: 我认为年龄验证被包装成保护儿童的合理方式,但实际上它对隐私、自由和开放网络构成了重大威胁。许多人呼吁提高使用互联网的年龄,或确保16岁以下的孩子不上社交媒体。人们对用户的年龄越来越关注,并开始思考不同年龄段的互联网体验应该是什么样的。年龄验证存在五大问题,即使它听起来像一个简单的解决方案,但实际上我们不应该这样做。 Eric Goldman: 年龄验证旨在将儿童与成人隔离,以便对儿童进行特殊的监管待遇。年龄认证的目的是询问或找出访问在线资源的人的年龄,并对儿童采取特殊保护措施。为了进行年龄验证,我们必须披露高度敏感的个人信息,这使我们面临更大的隐私侵犯风险。法律建立一种基础设施,增加人们收集信息的可能性,这似乎是本末倒置。要求儿童做出这些非常成人的选择是完全本末倒置的,因为他们更脆弱。

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This chapter introduces the concept of online age verification, its purpose of segregating children from adults online to provide special protection, and the growing concerns surrounding it. It also highlights the seemingly reasonable nature of age verification and the common argument that it's similar to other age-based restrictions in offline life.
  • Age verification aims to segregate children online for special protection.
  • Increased scrutiny on user age and tailoring internet experiences to age groups.
  • The seemingly reasonable nature of age verification due to existing offline age-based restrictions.

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Welcome back to Free Speech Friday!

All across the internet, parents and lawmakers are calling for tech companies to verify users' ages online. They frame these efforts as a smart, reasonable, and harmless way to keep kids safe. But that's not what age verification does!!!

Age verification efforts are a major threat to privacy, freedom, and the very idea of an open web. No one knows this better than Eric Goldman. He is the associate dean for research at Santa Clara University School of Law and co-Director of the High Tech Law Institute.

He recently wrote a fantastic paper on age verification, soon to be published in the Stanford Technology Law Review. Today he's joining me for Free Speech Friday to talk about how age verification works online and how it's all ultimately a trojan horse for government control surveillance, and censorship.

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