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Why Roblox's Announcement A Few Hours Ago Changes Everything,
A few hours ago Roblox launched real-world shopping inside its platform and it’s going to change how young people interact with products,...
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Synthetic Lies & Stolen Minds. Please Sign our Petition.
We stand with Common Sense Media in calling for urgent global standards. As Australians, we demand immediate action here at home....
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The Babysitter is Bleeding
There is a reason the child is quiet. And it isn’t because they are safe. The silence is bought with a screen. A screen that hums with...
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Italian Brainrot - What Parents Really Need to Know
The viral nonsense your child is quoting at dinner? It didn’t come out of nowhere and it’s not harmless. by Kirra Pendergast & Anna...
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How Zuckerberg Made Your Kids the New Operating System
This isn’t about influencer culture. It’s about corporate colonisation of childhood and how Meta’s grand plan is bigger, colder, and more...
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Big Tech’s New Babysitter
Google has started emailing parents who use Family Link to let them know that their kids will soon have access to Gemini (Googles AI...
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Your Teen’s Phone Isn’t Private. It’s a Portal. Are You Brave Enough to Close It at Night?
After a recent parent presentation, a mother pulled me aside. You could see the exhaustion behind her eyes, like she was holding...
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The Deepfake Cleanup Illusion.Why “Take It Down” Isn’t Taking Us Anywhere
On April 28, 2025, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the bipartisan #TakeItDown Act with a resounding 409–2 vote, following the...
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Big Tech Just Got Fined Billions
A couple of hours ago here in Europe it was announced that Apple has been fined 500 million euros (about 830 million Australian dollars...
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AI Tools are Finally Helping Teachers Breathe. Now Comes the Hard Part.
Teachers are not looking for miracles. They’re looking for time.Not the philosophical kind. Not the romanticised version. They are...
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Love Means Learning How to Protect Your Grandkids (and Yourself) Online
There were no smartphones when you were raising kids. No group chats to monitor. No YouTube wormholes. No having to explain why an app...
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AI, Aesthetics, and the Carbon Behind the Curtain
It’s raining in today Florence. That slow, steady kind of rain that makes the city feel like it’s breathing under the weight of its own...
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The Face Is Fake. The Risk Is Real.
Here we are, in 2025, where the most dangerous stranger your kid, your staff, or your leadership team will ever meet doesn’t even exist,...
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They Just Stole Ghibli, Called It Cute. You Just Made It Go Viral.
“Ghibli-style,” they call it. But this isn’t Ghibli. It’s not even close. It’s a knockoff, flattened and stripped of soul, funnelled...
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Corporate-Enabled Child Abuse and Snapchat Is the Crime Scene
What’s happening on Snapchat isn’t a “tech challenge” or a “youth behaviour issue.” It’s corporate-enabled child abuse . Jon Haidt and...
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Love, Trust, and Passwords - When Teen Digital Intimacy Crosses the Line
It starts out looking like young love. Your teen is on their phone a little more than usual—laughing, smiling, texting. They mention...
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Barbie Box or Action Hero? No thanks.
There’s a trend sweeping LinkedIn right now that is part career flex, part creative experiment, part nostalgia hit. You’ve probably seen...
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How Predatory Apps Weaponise Legal Loopholes Against Kids
Just because something isn’t explicitly illegal doesn’t make it safe, moral, or remotely okay. The image is a screenshot straight from a...
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AI Is Now Sniffing Out Cheaters...But at What Cost?
Right. So here we are. A new AI tool called CheatEye just dropped, and it’s already throwing petrol on the bonfire of modern...
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Boys aren’t just watching it. They’re producing it. Yes....that.
Not with cameras or with consent. But with screenshots, casual photos, AI, and the faces of real girls they know. This isn’t about...
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The MANipulation Pipeline (And How It Works).
They're being groomed. Not in the traditional sense, but digitally by algorithms designed to manipulate their identity. TikTok, YouTube,...
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Instagram just launched a School Partnerships Program
Instagram just launched a School Partnerships Program in the US inviting schools to sign up for “prioritised reporting,” “educational...
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The Ban Is Coming. And the Irony?
Let’s start with the part no one wants to say out loud. Schools are still posting student photos and events on platforms that students...
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Look Up!
Yesterday, I was out for a walk with my love and our wildly cute, fiercely independent Scottish Terrier, Monte, who struts through our...
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