The era of kids social media bans is upon us
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IT'S MONDAY, AND THIS IS DIGITAL POLITICS. I'm Mark Scott, and I'll be speaking at the annual CPDP conference in Brussels in May about how to boost researchers' access to social media data in the name of platform governance. If that's your bag, come say hello here.
— Countries are barreling ahead with kids' social media bans without assessing the evidence and failing to understand the likely collateral damage.
– Canada offers an example of how a so-called Middle Power can both increase its digital sovereignty without cutting itself off from the global tech community.
— Europe's national agencies in charge of the Digital Services Act come from markedly different regulatory traditions.
Let's get started: