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Listening to young people is not an optional extra; it is a necessary part of building effective responses to online harm.
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This is why initiatives like this matter. Creating space for young people to share their perspectives is essential if we want safeguarding efforts to reflect the realities of digital life.
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It highlights something many of us working in this space recognise: young people often feel that their experiences are not fully understood & that their voices are not always reflected in how online safety is approached.
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Created with input from the NSPCC’s Voice of Online Youth group, the series explores topics such as AI, screen time & online safety through the perspectives of young people themselves.
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A new four-part YouTube series from ChildLine, Where We Stand, offers a valuable insight into how young people experience life online — and, importantly, how they want to be heard.
🔗 tinyurl.com/f3jshv35
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As discussions continue around regulation & restrictions, this initiative is an important reminder that equipping people to talk openly & confidently about online experiences is a key part of safeguarding.
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The campaign highlights a key challenge: much of children’s online experience happens out of sight, making it harder for parents to know when and how to start these conversations.
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It comes in response to research showing that half of parents do not regularly speak to their children about these risks.
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The “You Won’t Know Until You Ask” campaign, being piloted in Yorkshire & the Midlands, aims to support parents in starting conversations about issues such as body-shaming, misogyny, & harmful content on social media.
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A new UK government initiative is placing a spotlight on an important but often difficult question: how do we talk to children about harmful online content?
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👉 Girlguiding. Transgender children. The sixth of September. The Cass Review said what the Tavistock wouldn't. Now the door is closing. The child nobody asked. bit.ly/4dH5Faz #Girlguiding #TransgenderChildren #CassReview #GenderDysphoria #ChildSafeguarding @lbc.co.uk @benkentish.bsky.social
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Listening to these perspectives is essential if we want to create digital environments that genuinely protect & support young people.
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Others highlight the challenges of enforcement, noting that age restrictions did not always prevent access to platforms like Instagram, TikTok & Snapchat.
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Some describe the ban as an opportunity to step back & realise that social media wasn’t as important in their daily lives as they had thought.
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A recent video captures Australian teenagers reflecting on their experiences of the country’s social media ban — & their responses are mixed.
🔗 www.instagram.com/reels/DWL0HO...
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These communicative practices are central to how harm is organised & sustained — &, importantly, how it can be identified & disrupted.
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At DRAGON, this resonates strongly with our own research. We have explored how online child sexual abuse offender communities use language to discuss, share, & circulate grooming-related content.
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A key contribution of this work is its focus on understanding how offenders operate & interact online — an essential step in designing more effective prevention and intervention strategies.
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It also underscores how platform design, anonymity, & accessibility shape offender behaviour, while pointing to the potential of well-designed deterrence measures to disrupt harmful activity.
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Tackling online harms requires coordinated action across regulation, research & practice. These remarks are an important reminder that safeguarding children online must remain a shared priority.
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Ofcom has already begun enforcement activity, including strengthening age assurance measures & investigating the misuse of AI technologies.
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The Online Safety Act marks a significant shift. Platforms are now required to assess risks upfront & take meaningful action to protect children.
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My Substack article on @samcarling.bsky.social's rise as a Labour MP who is also an ex-Jehovah's Witness whistleblower and #childsafeguarding advocate (and the numbers that prove he's right)...
open.substack.com/pub/lloydonl...
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Creating digital spaces where girls are safe, supported, & empowered requires sustained collaboration, evidence, & action.
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This gendered dimension is reflected globally. In the UK, the NSPCC reports that 81% of online grooming offences are committed against girls.
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Evidence from the Maldives shows that technology-facilitated abuse is becoming increasingly present in reported cases of sexual abuse, many affecting women & girls.
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The technology will also be open-sourced, allowing other VPN providers, ISPs & cloud services to adopt similar measures.
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By applying targeted DNS-level controls based on independently verified data, the system prevents access to known criminal websites while maintaining ExpressVPN’s no-logs policy & avoiding deep packet inspection.
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Crucially, the system has been built to operate without compromising user privacy. It works by blocking domains identified in the IWF’s verified dataset, rather than inspecting user traffic or logging browsing activity.
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Together they have developed a tool called OpenBoundary, designed to block access to websites known to host child sexual abuse material across ExpressVPN’s network.
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