Safe by Default

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A campaign for digital environments that protect, not punish, neurodivergent and vulnerable children.We share lived experience, critique failing systems, and push for change.✳️ Blog: saferbydefault.substack.com
🔐 Email: safebydefault@protonmail.com
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Children have always made company with animals, characters and imagined beings.

AI companions are different. They are products built to simulate intimacy, sustain attachment and monetise the need open.substack.com/pub/saferbydef…

Violent youth repertoires now cross borders faster than the categories meant to explain them.

Not an argument for wider securitisation. An argument for better safeguarding, stronger belonging, and digital systems that stop glorifying violent scripts. open.substack.com/pub/saferbydef…

Southport was not only a story of missed warnings.

It was also a story of a child deteriorating across adolescence with too much open internet access and too little meaningful support.

Safe by default. Earlier help. Real digital support for families saferbydefault.substack.com/p/after-preven…

When I was a teenager there were places to go.

Youth clubs. Discos. Saturday jobs. Festivals. Just… being out in the world.

Many of those spaces have quietly disappeared.

New essay: saferbydefault.substack.com/p/the-collapse…