EFF Submission to OHCHR Consultation on Child Rights and Safety in the Digital Environment

“The safety of young people in the digital environment cannot be assessed without also considering the safety of young people in offline environments. For millions of young people around the world, the digital environment is their safe place, their haven from an unsafe physical environment, community, or family situation. The digital environment may be the best, perhaps only, place for them to find critical safety information and community, to explore ideas that are controversial in their families and larger physical environments, and to otherwise nourish their personal autonomy. “For these young people, regulatory efforts that limit their access to online services or to certain features they find valuable, make their lives, in total,...

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