On 24 September 2026, Manushya Foundation’s Digital Rights Adviser Dr Jean Linis-Dinco delivered a lightning talk at the Future of Speech Online, challenging blanket age restrictions dressed up as “care”. ❤️ For many young people, especially queer, working-class and marginalised youth, the internet is a lifeline to community, education, work and support. 𝗟𝗼𝗰𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺 𝘀𝗮𝗳𝗲𝗿. 𝗜𝘁 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗰𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺 𝗼𝗳𝗳 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁

Are we truly protecting children online if we do not confront the systems that profit off of their harm? #NoToAgeGating "The isolation [that our younger generation is facing] did not appear from nowhere. It is produced by the same economic order that hollowed out public education. Capitalism offered this generation debt and precarity amidst a global ecological collapse instead of a future. [Capitalism] has nothing to give an alienated teenager except the attention economy's

#NoToAgeGating! 🙅🏽‍♀️ When states say they want to “protect children” by banning them online, which children do they mean? 𝙎𝙥𝙤𝙞𝙡𝙚𝙧: 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙤𝙤𝙧! 🙃 Freedom has never been granted from above. It has been seized, again and again, by the people most determined to be free, and most often by the young. In Manushya Foundation's submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association, “𝘚𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘎𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯: