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Kate Sim

@katejsim.bsky.social
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COSPR - children's online safety and privacy research cospr.net Building worker power against militarism in tech @techworkerscoalition.org @notechforapartheid.bsky.social

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The Maybe @themaybe.org · 25/09/2026
@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
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The Maybe @themaybe.org · 25/09/2026
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.
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The Maybe @themaybe.org · 25/09/2026
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?
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The Maybe @themaybe.org · 25/09/2026
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?
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Kate Sim @katejsim.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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...
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Digital Child @digitalchildau.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
🚀 New Database Launch: Know Your EdTech What's really behind the educational apps children use every day?
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SUPERRR Lab @superrrnetwork.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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.
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SUPERRR Lab @superrrnetwork.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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
purple background, screenshot of website feministtechpolicy.org showing 3 deepdives: digital fairness, digital violence, feminist tech policy, each with colorful illustrations next to them. Arrow pointing at Digital Violence, text "Deep dive on digital violence now on feministtechpolicy.org
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Madeleine Baker @madeleineebaker.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Fantastic review by a fantastic scholar of a fantastic book by a fantastic journalist and writer 🚀 (with a little shout-out to yours truly)
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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.
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Hackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verification Company Scanned. For Over A Year.
From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it "age" verification, but it always ends up as identity verification), we've been pointing out that it was a huge privacy nightmare waiting to happen. Or maybe it wasn't waiting. Maybe it was already happening. This week a...
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J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Oops - forgot to post the graphic for this piece, earlier. Where money from US opioid settlements is being spent on Flock & similar camera systems.
Mother Jones graphic by Melissa Lewis, showing areas on a US map where opioid settlement funds have been spent on Flock cameras and other Automated License Plate Recognition (ALPR) systems.
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 25/08/2026
I know when it’s your kid you’ll employ any and all methods to ensure they’re safe when they leave the house but an existential consequence of starting children early on surveillance is their increasing acceptance of more surveillance as adults and we’re all gonna have to reckon with that.
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Kate Sim @katejsim.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Been asked a few times so putting together the various trackers on age assurance and child online safety bills that I've been using. Do share what you've found useful! Global tracker by Maia Levy Daniel: childsafety-tracker.netlify.app
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Global Child Safety & Social Media Policy Tracker
Laws, bills, court decisions, milestones and research across 40+ jurisdictions. Updated automatically every Monday.
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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
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
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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 08/07/2026
Waymo car delivers misbehaving teen passengers to San Mateo police
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Waymo car delivers misbehaving teen passengers to San Mateo police
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Juliet Shen @julietshen.online · 07/07/2026
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?...
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How xenophobia went viral in South Africa | The Listening Post
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English
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Tama Leaver @tamaleaver.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
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
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How xenophobia went viral in South Africa | The Listening Post
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 16/06/2026
Child labor platform gets age verification.
nbcnews.com
How old are you really? Inside Roblox’s new campaign to verify user ages
“Not everyone is going to be happy all the time,” the platform’s head of safety product policy told NBC News, saying Roblox believes its safety updates are worth the turbulence.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 17/05/2026
There’s a long list of reasons to boo this man.
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Arizona students boo former Google CEO Eric Schmidt as he talks about AI during graduation speech
Eric Schmidt, the former Google CEO, faced jeers and boos during a commencement address at the University of Arizona's graduation ceremony on Friday.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
BREAKING: The Senate just unanimously banned Senators from trading on prediction markets, effective immediately.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
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.
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Nearly half of families live in a "child care desert"
46% of children ages 6 and younger live where there are more than three kids per licensed child care slot.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 24/04/2026
🚨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...
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
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.
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Prediction markets could soon be available in your retirement account
Bitwise, Roundhill and GraniteShares have filed applications with the SEC to offer event contracts as exchange-traded funds.
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post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
with zero sarcasm this is good government and we should do this immediately
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Kate Sim @katejsim.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
"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."
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
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.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
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.
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‘Everyone is Replaceable’: Death Rattles Oregon Amazon Facility
A worker died at Amazon’s Troutdale warehouse last week. Employees were told to look away.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 06/04/2026
Among the many things I hate about privacy nihilism is that it always ignores the very real and growing pushback against these systems.
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‘Creepy surveillance’: why some cities are shutting down Flock cameras amid privacy concerns
Some cities are cutting ties with firm that provides license plate reader cameras, others are signing new contracts and many are still looking for their footing
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
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...
Preorder page for my kids book, FIGHT TO WIN!
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 23/03/2026
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.
A graph that shows the rising violations of child labor laws in the US since 2015, increasing from under 2,000 per fiscal year to 6,000 in 2025.
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 20/03/2026
"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."
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The legend of Cesar Chavez will never be the same after multiple rape allegations | Moira Donegan
The righteousness of the farmworker struggle persists in the face of a man who chose not to live up to its values
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
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.
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A Disturbing New Low in the Polymarket Era
Maybe turning war into a casino was a bad idea?
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Reo Eveleth @reveleth.com · 19/03/2026
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...
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It’s Time To Kill the Hero
On Cesar Chavez, René Redzepi, and all the men we make excuses for in the name of the greater good.
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Kate Sim @katejsim.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
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
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 17/03/2026
*ARIZONA CHARGES KALSHI WITH OPERATING ILLEGAL GAMBLING BUSINESS
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Labor Tech Research Network @labortechresearchnetwork.org · 16/03/2026
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...
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ALT COOPERATIVA
Somos ALT Cooperativa, un equipo de diseño, desarrollo y comunicación con perspectiva feminista y de derechos humanos. En este canal compartimos nuestras miradas sobre tecnología, accesibilidad, ident...
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Kate Sim @katejsim.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Latest from me and @juliapowles.bsky.social for @projectsyndicate.bsky.social on the social media ban and age-checks: It's not just that this proposal is faulty, unreliable, and unfit for purpose. It's actively harmful. www.project-syndicate.org/magazine/onl...
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Becca Lewis @beccalew.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Everyone read the latest from @juliapowles.bsky.social and @katejsim.bsky.social !!! www.project-syndicate.org/magazine/onl...
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Online Age-Gating Is the Wrong Answer
Julia Powles & Kate Sim worry that an increasingly popular policy intervention could do more harm than good.
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Kate Sim @katejsim.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
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Kate Sim @katejsim.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
So excited to see this out in the world! @tomasgna.bsky.social historicizes the tensions between scale, compliance/trust, and governance/regulation that characterize the project of T&S ⬇️
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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Unfortunately, “Yo brother, legal team confirmed we can’t work with minors rn” is an instant classic
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 28/02/2026
“The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants.”
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The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 27/02/2026
Behind the scenes, “Meta was divided on whether protecting kids should take precedence over user growth and engagement. For years, the company only incrementally rolled out restrictive safety features, even as its own staff detailed the risks its platforms posed to children.”
theatlantic.com
How Meta Executives Talked About Child Safety Behind the Scenes
For years, employees acknowledged a problem with potential child groomers, but prioritized growth over fixes.
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Kate Sim @katejsim.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Finally caught up with this great piece from @currentaffairs.bsky.social on the prediction market, which actively targets economically precarious young people. Absolutely no reason for this market to exist, let alone their ads to be everywhere www.currentaffairs.org/news/ban-pre...
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Ban Prediction Markets
They don’t produce knowledge, they can’t prevent insider trading, and they turn politics, war, and death into a cash-out.
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 10/02/2026
Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family. “He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.
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‘He’s not the same’: Father of Liam Conejo Ramos says 5-year-old continues to suffer
Some people thought they say the 5-year-old during the Super Bowl halftime show. But Liam is still in hiding with his family, after he and his father were detained and then released from a Texas deten...
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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
we're releasing a PDF of our zine about ICE's tech for free. we also translated it to Spanish. Please share far and wide! www.404media.co/icezine/
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Our Zine About ICE Surveillance Is Here
Download a PDF of our first ever zine here.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 23/01/2026
Ooop
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Google’s work in schools aims to create a ‘pipeline of future users,’ internal documents say
A major lawsuit revealed details of Google's business motivations to get its products into schools. A Google spokesperson said the documents "mischaracterize our work."
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Seeing Zohran instantly getting a bunch of shit done in like a week makes you realize that politicians could always do that on some level if they wanted it bad enough and very few of them actually do.
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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 14/01/2026
And there’s a federal version of this bill that you should tell your lawmakers to support. www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/data...
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Data Brokers Harm Abuse Survivors, We Need a Law to Stop Them
Data Brokers Harm Abuse Survivors, We Need a Law to Stop Them
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 14/01/2026
Yup. Everything in this thread, up to and including the end. You don't eat around the cockroach.
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