Internet Standards and Age Verification Architecture
A new IETF working draft sets out a technology-neutral framework for age assurance on the internet, comparing methods across service, device, and network enforcement layers.
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Internet Standards and Age Verification Architecture
A new IETF working draft sets out a technology-neutral framework for age assurance on the internet, comparing methods across service, device, and network enforcement layers.
Can Licensing Save the Content Economy?
Two views on licensing and the creator economy.
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When news broke that one of Mexico's most powerful cartel leaders had been killed, the violence that followed spilled into two spaces at once. The streets of Guadalajara, and the internet.
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‘Best Interests of the Child’ Paradox: The Social Media Ban Debate in the UK
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Publisher content is being scraped at scale for AI training and services without clear consent, attribution, or compensation, while also degrading site performance and diverting engineering resources away from human users.