Kate Sim

What a way to wrap up the year by sharing COSPR's work at #39c3! Antagonistic framing of children's safety vs. adults' privacy does no one good. We need critical connections to move us towards effective, compassionate, and enduring interventions. media.ccc.de/v/39c3-not-a...

Join me and @ashaoallen.bsky.social for the child safety social tmrw! Open to all those who want to chat age assurance, social media ban, and all things child online safety!! luma.com/0640ad36

This article really gets at why regulating the Internet for kids isn’t enough. The dangerous content online is dangerous for all of us. We would all be better off without AI scams and digital violence. The constant vigilance is depressing. And no amount of individualistic caution is enough.

Inside an ICE facility, women talked about the men whose 911 calls landed them there — the boyfriends or husbands who had beat them, choked them, threatened deportation. “I had suffered from domestic violence,” one woman said. “But the one who ended up in trouble was me.”

Call for chapters for an edited collection: "Mapping Childhoods: Creative Co-Design of Space and Place." Abstracts are due by 29 November.

Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities

Comprehensive sex education does reduce sexual violence perpetration. But the most effective programs are in a K-12 environment. This is a fight we should be having with public school districts and state legislatures.

Restorative justice also has huge limitations in the context of sexual violence. The perpetrator must confess. There cannot be a structural power disparity between victim and perpetrator. It is not safe for intimate partner violence. It is too time-intensive for victims with multiple perpetrators.

Just a reminder that people don’t always realize they were raped in the immediate aftermath. It can take hours, days, months, and even years to realize you were raped, and it doesn’t make it any less true. There are many kinds of responses, including fawning and trying to appease your rapist

@alixdunn.com will be in discussion with some incredible child safety advocates and tech policy experts: - @katejsim.bsky.social, Director of COSPR - Fir Redzuan, Founder of Monsters Against Us - Octania Wynn, Researcher at ELSAM

We’re hosting a live show at SVRI in Bangkok, Thailand on Friday, October 9th, to explore the tension between free expression and youth safety online, in Asia and beyond.

These laws carry harms of their own: they restrict young people’s ability to connect, learn, and express themselves, while contorting the shape of the internet in ways that can make it worse for everyone. So what do we do?

Across Asia, countries are rapidly introducing social media bans for young people. Harms to children online - from adverse mental and physical health impacts to sexual exploitation and violence - have prompted regulators to act. But at what cost?

Timely paper from @tomasgna.bsky.social on how T&S workers are reconfiguring online harm "into corporate risks" as the theater of AI safety/xrisk prevails and the project of T&S erodes...

🚀 New Database Launch: Know Your EdTech What's really behind the educational apps children use every day?

Digital violence does not come out of nowhere: it’s a consequence of numerous harmful structures, like patriarchy, misogyny, racism, transphobia and more. Until we address those structures (and the conditions that make them possible) we won’t meaningfully address digital violence, either.

One of the policy areas we highlight on our recently re-launched Feminist Tech Policy site is ‘Digital Violence’. One of our main points is: What if we connected the dots between online and offline violence? feministtechpolicy.org/en/spotlight/digital-violence

Fantastic review by a fantastic scholar of a fantastic book by a fantastic journalist and writer 🚀 (with a little shout-out to yours truly)

Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe.

Oops - forgot to post the graphic for this piece, earlier. Where money from US opioid settlements is being spent on Flock & similar camera systems.

Kind of hard for Bluesky people to argue this was all about academic standards when these guys are openly crowing that it was about race

Waymo car delivers misbehaving teen passengers to San Mateo police

the amazing @katejsim.bsky.social is featured here on how young people need support and resources, not broad social media bans youtu.be/EFYO-JmbN_k?...

It was a pleasure part of @aljazeera.com's @ajlisteningpost.bsky.social episode this week discussing the Australia's teen social media ban and the global pushes to replicate it, alongside child rights research superstar @katejsim.bsky.social. The ban story starts at 13.45: ▶️ youtu.be/EFYO-JmbN_k

BREAKING: The Senate just unanimously banned Senators from trading on prediction markets, effective immediately.

Nearly half of American families with young kids live in a "child care desert," according to a new report. The Center for American Progress says there's a dramatic shortage of licensed day care providers. On top of that, the cost of childcare has soared in recent years.

🚨ACTION ALERT🚨 The CA Assembly is fast-tracking A.B. 1709, a bill that would ban everyone under 16 from social media. This censorship scheme threatens your data privacy and ignores the First Amendment. Tell your representatives to vote NO on A.B. 1709. eff.salsalabs.org/stopcasocia...

Retirement accounts could soon be gambling on prediction markets. Three firms have filed applications with the SEC to offer "event contracts" for retirement accounts, similar to prediction markets Polymarket and Kalshi. Retirement savings could then be bet on future events.

with zero sarcasm this is good government and we should do this immediately

"Nowhere is it written that a multinational conglomerate with a market cap of roughly four trillion dollars is fated to command our public schools, or to grant fellowships to the leaders of those schools, or to monetize the inefficient children who attend them."

BREAKING: Maryland is about to become the first state in the nation to ban the use of surveillance data and dynamic pricing at grocery stores. The Maryland House has just passed the Protection from Predatory Pricing Act. Governor Wes Moore plans to sign the bill.

A worker died at an Amazon warehouse in Oregon last week. For more than an hour, workers were instructed to continue working as the man lay dead. One worker wanted to help, but a manager told them to “Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work," according to @thewesternedge.bsky.social.

Did you know that the paperback version of my labor history book for young readers, ‘Fight to Win!’ is coming out in paperback soon, at a very low price point, right in time for summer reading lists? Now you do, and you can preorder it for 25% off here! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/fight-to-w...

The number of child labor violations has risen fivefold in the last 10 years, but Republicans across the US are continuing to propose and pass legislation that rolls back protections or regulations for workers under the age of 18.

"The legend of Cesar Chavez will never be the same," writes @moiradonegan.bsky.social. "But the righteousness of the trade union struggle...cannot be tarnished by Chavez’s behavior."

Interviewed the journalist who was getting death threats from polymarket gamblers to change his reporting on an Iranian missile strike. Scary stuff in here about how the intense harassment made him (for just a split second) doubt what he saw and reported. Others may not have his conviction/morals.

Like, well, pretty much everybody, the Cesar Chavez story broke @coyotemedia.org's heart. There's so much to say about it, but @soleilho.com swung big: can we all agree to just... skip the whole hero thing entirely? www.coyotemedia.org/kill-the-her...

At a time when the right is using racialized/gendered anxieties to attack migrants/workers, the liberal response to claim moral purity by removing chavez' name while refusing to fight for the dignity of workers that dolores huerta and other survivors put before their healing is performative at best

*ARIZONA CHARGES KALSHI WITH OPERATING ILLEGAL GAMBLING BUSINESS

New! Living Trans, a video series featuring trans people working in technology and cooperativism, produced by the Argentine co-operative Alternativa Laboral Trans (ALT), in partnership with DigiLabour, funded by the Queer and Trans Research Lab/University of Toronto www.youtube.com/@alt.coopera...