We will be hearing from our esteemed gas to will talk to
little bit later and then we are opening the floor to the
audience on the floor and online for suggestions that you
have a want to hear from you were questions about creating a
safe space for children online as well as anything you might
hear from her speakers and maybe a quick introduction what
is a top-level domain?
Anybody?
Why are we here if we don't know what that is?
So to the right of that..com or.org and.kids why is that
to have more stronger policies and this is an Internet space
that is for children and by children and needs to be a safe
space for them to explore and learn and grow without being
exposed to more unsavory content on the Internet that
probably is when other platforms as well.
So talking about the mission and vision we are trying to
create and foster in online space with kids best interest at
heart to be sustainable to children's rights and welfare
initiative with digital rights.
Does anybody know the definition of children?
So for.kids we are basing our guidelines under the UN
convention of the rights of the child and this is the most
signed signatory instrument for us in the road that defines
children as those under 18 for the kids guiding principles
to take a lot of it from this document you can see there are
bullets we want to concentrate on the children's right to
protection to survival and freedom of expression because it
seems quite broad is protection from unsavory content from
gambling and tobacco are things that are not age-appropriate
for children and if we are looking at the right to privacy
the second bullet point is talking a lot by data privacy in
general they have a right to privacy the third to survival
is the contents not to seek content that promotes the taking
of life and suicide and of course the last one is
self-explanatory with the freedom of expression they are
able to post what they are thinking and learn and grow and
explore.
And also besides being prohibitive of things you want to
encourage content kid friendly and children friendly to grow
in the same space kid friendly content guide to adhere to
nondiscrimination in marketing and advertising relation to
children we have to be particularly sensitive it is not
explaining them were to push any unsavory or inappropriate
materials or services to children it is categorization for
kids there is a sliding range child can be anywhere from
zero through 18 and the appropriateness of content really
does change as the child ages and then going to security
policy development those policies that govern the namespace.
And with those initiatives to look at what really is best
for children in terms of protection as well as allowing them
to express themselves which brings me to the point to look
at children's participation I thank you have heard a lot
about representation so we want to hear from children
themselves and what they want to see in the namespace don't
want to be to prescriptive and we need to get them the
freedom and then the multi- stakeholders collaboration all
of you in the room you are part of the multi- stakeholder
and welfare organizations that all of you are a part of the
multi- stakeholder collaborative efforts and we want to hear
what you think.
I don't want to waste too much time on these bullets but we
want to hear from our guest.
Introducing our guest beakers right next to me in the room
we have our public policy manager and content regulation
based here in Singapore online a chairwoman and project
manager and based in Germany thank you for joining us online
I know it is very early for you in Germany's so in Q for you
participating we have the youth delegate and maybe you heard
of speaker ready part of net nation.asia so I really want to
ask Jesse what it is for meta, what do we need to
look out for how is that regulation in terms of targeted to
children?
And what is the framework and with the takedown and the
policies that govern this.
>> Thank you.
Nice to meet you and with those issues that we look after
child safety and woman safety.
And with the and talk about online safety when they talk to
children so for me is that from the types of content from
the types of content they are creating online which could
put them in danger and then the people they are interacting
with that could be dangerous or in appropriate.
And these are not exclusive if you look at bad content then
you could produce that content and so here we use a
combination of policies product tools and features to ensure
that all these different aspects of safety and our community
standards is the set of policies that govern what content is
not allowed on the platforms is applied to all users as a
baseline that includes child exploitation and bullying and
harassment and on top of the baseline communities to go a
step further to restrict certain types of content that could
be okay for the general public but so examples of this with
graphic content because we know that children could not be
development on –- developmentally ready from that we might
not want our children to be exposed to so what we are
thinking that as he moved to the future we think about
recommendations and so for this it is the content that could
be okay on the platform if we are recommending pushing it to
the user without the medicating they want to see it and they
need to have a stricter set of policies in place is this how
we have the content.
And then in large amounts because struggling with body image
issues and to be overly exposed is something that we want to
avoid honor platforms.
So I can give an example of product design making it safer
for children from the get-go so we think about
age-appropriate and how we can protect them from the first
Place we introduce privacy by default settings and so today
signing up for a new account on Instagram below the age of
16 is automatically set to private by default with the
content you are creating and putting out there only your
close friends can see it and having a private account
protects you from being approached by bad actors who may
have bad intentions and in terms of interaction we also stop
that actors from looking for young people on the platform so
we look at signals if you have other minor accounts we will
fight you for inappropriate behavior and then to prevent you
from reaching other children on the platforms of these are
examples taking a comprehensive multilayered approach.
>> Thank you for the comprehensives summary of what that it
is doing I mindful of time so next tell us about the
situation in Europe as well as globally and the work you are
doing with children's rights.
>> Of course.
I'm happy to do so.
Advocating children's rights especially predictions of
environment in the things that we're doing now general
comment number 25 and with the environment and that we base
everything on that.
And as you may know it was published by the UN committee
from last year in March I think and the states ratified
especially in regard to protect the children but also
ensuring their rights to freedom of expression.
So those to create a safe space for children it is an
obligation for the states for safe space but also for the
platform providers.
But how can we do that?
It is not an easy task it is very complex that may come
along for children and we are talking about sexual abuse
material spread on the Internet.
But we do think that it provides for a unique opportunity
and then we need to be aware if it creates such a playground
with those perpetrators and we need to ensure the space is
still cap safe for children.
That means we need respective safeguards that they have the
appropriate content in the safe space they are protected
from an appropriate content and interaction with people that
they need to be aware of any restriction of the safe space
the children's access to other users that have been impact
of rights to freedom and freedom of expression and we need a
balanced approach.
And with that draft regulation that is underway.
And then with freedom of expression.
>> Thank you for the comprehensive look it always is a fine
balance as well as upholding the children's right of freedom
of expression that potential of growth but swinging back to
Asia and talk to the generations the participants.
Stella Wyatt is online safety to you and what you hope to
see in the space?
>> We believe for generations he is included because we are
in the transition phase to be acknowledged as children and
perhaps bigger responsibilities so when it comes to our
relations perhaps a new perspective is because we are more
aware some things you want to explore and also given more
freedom and some parents may also feel once you reach a
certain age they do feel the responsibility is passed on to
the individual youth as opposed to how they feel about
children.
I like to comment and then for the IGF 2022 but four.kids it
is allowed for parents to register under.kids so something
we have seen with teefour there is a prevalence of cases
where parents are using their kids for clout and to stay
relevant in a way and this needs to be discussed because
safeguards that kids may want to consider since you are
giving them that.
Also mentioning earlier looking at policies in the general
sense cultural differences across the world.
And that parenting child relationship is received I would
highlight that need to be considered more one-way and with
that representation of the multi- stakeholder dialogue.
And it is relevant to the context with the representation of
children.
>> Think use Stella there is cultural sensitivities even
within our own region with tradition as well as things I've
learned from previous generations it is still quite
difficult for children to speak up and speak their mind we
hope it's an opportunity for them to express themselves
freely.
We know we only have half an hour we have one third of the
time to the people in the room so online participants if you
have comments or questions please put it in the chat and
people in the room please feel free to come up to the
microphone because children are vulnerable that we still
want to give them the freedom and space to be able to use
the Internet and the way that benefits their growth.
Anybody from the audience?
I promise there will be prizes.
I see one coming up.
>> I am from Korea and I have a question that in some
specific countries I feel it is censored oil and then we can
try to help them.
>> Is that a question you want to direct specifically to
anybody on the panel?
>> I think government regulation is one of those that you
don't complain you are out of the country but that approach
we take here in terms of helping and informing regulators I
what is the ideal way they can go about thinking about
regulation to engage from the very start of policy
development because they may not be fully aware of all the
difficulties and challenges from online content regulation.
Those principles and this helps us to land in a much better
place for when the actual regulation is passed.
>> .
>> But then in those various regions.
So now in many countries the repressive actions are
undertaken by governments and so freedom of expression is
not guaranteed for the population but on the other hand in
some cases we need some restrictions to cope with hate
speech and also child sexual abuse material so it is not
difficult for me to find the balance but still to keep under
control all of this unwanted content and unhealthy content
on the Internet.
>> Yes.
Always the question in the consideration to balance well.
There was a question have a similar question but how do you
deal with striking the balance so to tomorrow they want to
access its your understanding about that.
>> This is always a good question because we want to protect
them but we also want to educate them from the.kids
foundation point of view we do have materials that are
completely prohibited, but there are certain categories
where if it is in an educational material sense, if we are
in school there is sexual education but in history lesson
you learned about very violent so if it is in the
appropriate educational context come I think it is
beneficial for the sliding scale as well so what is
appropriate that sliding-scale goes back up so to a child of
15 hopefully that is difficult and he doesn't want to add to
them with the huge of.
>> So we do need to train artificial intelligence to decide
with the other category and in the end in some cases we need
a human making the decision if that content is provided to
young people or if it should not be.
>> And important point does AI assisting with combating
content as well as the human elements.
I see there are more hands on the floor if you are first and
second please go ahead.
>> So what are the safety initiatives with the security and
privacy?
And for the children seeing the digital space knowing what
they see they do because we are running out of time and then
we'll try to answer at all that once.
>> Thank you for the wonderful presentation and I'm glad you
mentioned age appropriate design because it normally focus
on content and not the design aspects.
And it is readable and understandable because.
>> I have not forgotten the prices by the way just come to
me after this session.
We only have a minute and a half left so what are the
policies security and policies for go to.kids in there
you will find a comprehensive set of registry policies that
government that namespace I assure you there is very strict
confrontation but regular top-level domains of course that
we do look out for and we do.
>> So we do try to make all these.
But more sexy –- just of all for those images ourselves or
we can collaborate but it's interesting from what they come
out to further your experiences with the colleagues in
future thank you for your great questions and we are running
out of time that the upper hand and come up to the me at on
–- four years questions.
Thank you for your time.
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