Digital Rights

The digital exclusion of adults 55 and older was not an accident. It was not the natural outcome of technological progress moving faster than people could keep up. It was a deliberate choice, made by technology companies during the most critical period of the internet's development, and the evidence is now documented and undeniable. The Dot-Com Era: When the Choice Was Made (1990–2001) When the World Wide Web emerged commercially in the 1990s, the technology industry faced a

In 2016, the United Nations Human Rights Council passed a resolution declaring that the same rights people have offline must also be protected online. Internet access became an internationally recognized human right. Yet millions of adults 55 and older remain systematically locked out of the digital world. That is not a market inconvenience. It is a civil rights violation. The Internet Is Now a Human Right — Officially The UN Human Rights Council's 2016 Resolution A/HRC/RES/3

Have you ever picked up your phone, opened Facebook, scrolled through your feed — and then put the phone down feeling just a little bit worse than when you picked it up? If that has happened to you, there is nothing wrong with you. What's happening has a name, it's backed by real science, and it is being done to you on purpose. You Are Seeing Everyone's Highlight Reel — Not Real Life When you post something on Facebook, what do you share? You post the birthday party, not the