{"podcast":{"title":"Wow If True","slug":"wow-if-true-3090465","podcast_index_feed_id":3090465,"rss_url":"https://rss.art19.com/wow-if-true","website_url":"https://art19.com/shows/wow-if-true","image_url":"https://content.production.cdn.art19.com/images/52/bf/a3/46/52bfa346-c6d5-43d5-9d8b-dc311cf77b34/888d15b0dcc5a5da1f92ab2f2d1284b0e90cda9c215dca32ded5812fd51c6fb37f8c8bf74d9185f5ec06865c648d143f8c6f20db2cfaeb525b8aeeb7165ee93c.jpeg","author":"Multitude","episode_count":139,"summary":"​​Wow If True is your one-stop internet culture shop, explaining how what’s happening online shapes the real world. And we’re the internet experts and real-life besties to unravel it: tech culture journalist Amanda Silberling and science fiction author slash attorney Isabel J. Kim, Esq. More importantly, we’re the only podcast that will mention Neopets and horizontal mergers in the same episode. New episode every other Wednesday.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/wow-if-true-3090465"},"episode":{"title":"122: Age Verification on the Internet","slug":"122-age-verification-on-the-internet","published_at":"2025-09-03T04:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/wow-if-true-3090465/122-age-verification-on-the-internet","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/wow-if-true-3090465","url":"https://rss.art19.com/episodes/3ff97f23-a3db-4087-a52d-23ed9449f171.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIg90cmFuc2NyaWJyBjoGRVQ%3D--952c5701c84ad333c69d5faa668f8177091704f0","audio_url":"https://rss.art19.com/episodes/3ff97f23-a3db-4087-a52d-23ed9449f171.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIg90cmFuc2NyaWJyBjoGRVQ%3D--952c5701c84ad333c69d5faa668f8177091704f0","summary":"Did you have to verify your government ID to listen to this podcast? We hope not, but in some parts of the world, this is becoming a reality. We're talking about why age verification laws are becoming more popular in the U.S. and U.K., and how the pursuit of children's online safety -- when legislated irresponsibly -- can just create new problems of surveillance and censorship. Also, Isabel went to the Hugos. She lost. She gave George R.R. Martin his own high school yearbook to sign. It was weird. We talk about that here, too. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .","meta_description":"Did you have to verify your government ID to listen to this podcast? We hope not, but in some parts of the world, this is becoming a reality. We're talkin…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3853,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/wow-if-true-3090465/episodes/122-age-verification-on-the-internet/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/wow-if-true-3090465/122-age-verification-on-the-internet.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}