{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Computer Says Maybe","title":"How to (Actually) Keep Kids Safe Online w/ Kate Sim","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2909,"description":"Child safety is a fuzzy catch-all concept for our broader social anxieties that seems to be everywhere in our conversations about the internet. But child safety isn’t a new concept, and the way our politics focuses on the spectacle isn’t new either.\nTo help us unpack this is Kate Sim, who has over a decade of experience in sexual violence prevention and response and is currently the Director of the Children’s Online Safety and Privacy Research (COSPR) program at the University of Western Australia’s Tech & Policy Lab. We discuss the growth of ‘child safety’ regulation around the world, and how it often conflates multiple topics: age-gating adult content, explicit attempts to harm children, national security, and even ‘family values’.\nFurther reading & resources:\nOn COSPRs forthcoming paper on the CSAM detection ecosystem. Here is a fact sheet with ecosystem map based on it: https://bit.ly/cospr-collateral\nOn CSAM bottleneck problem: https://doi.org/10.25740/pr592kc5483\nIBCK episode on the Anxious Generation: https://pod.link/1651876897/episode/47a8aa95c83be96b044dcb3f4e43d158\nChild psychology expert Candace Odgers debunking Jonathan Haidt’s claims in real-time here: https://tyde.virginia.edu/event/haidt-odgers/)\nA primer on client-side scanning and CSAM from Mitali Thakor: https://mit-serc.pubpub.org/pub/701yvdbh/release/2\nOn effective CSA prevention and scalability: https://www.prevention.global/resources/read-full-scalability-report\n**Subscribe to our newsletter to get more stuff than just a podcast — we run events and do other work that you will definitely be interested in!**\nDr. Kate Sim is the Director of the COSPR Program. She has over 14 years of experience in sexual violence prevention and response, having worked across community organizing, frontline support, government, academia, and industry in the US, UK, and South Korea. Her current research interests are: Big Tech accountability, sexual violence, and children’s liberation. Most recently, she worked...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/PAOdL_M5QWOyjzFOZU9ULYY2O6u4IqytQJB3zKAY9fo/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9mMmQ1/MmQ3YzNiMDQ0MjA1/ZjYyZGM0YTRlMWZi/N2MxZS5qcGVn.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}