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Zuckerberg’s “Fix” for Child Safety Could End Anonymous Internet Access for Everyone
(reclaimthenet.org)
this post was submitted on 23 Feb 2026
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While I think your intent is fine, there’s no way I’d trust a for-profit company– Facebook no less– to be the gatekeeper. Their priority is and will always be to wring every possible cent out of your data/privacy. That it might align with children’s safety is coincidental at best, and in any case temporary.
TBH, I don't trust them any further than I can throw them. If it comes to that, I'll use an old ID with invalid info, but thankfully I don't use Meta but maybe once a week to check work-related DM's.
This is a lesser of two evils thing.
The answer (IMO) isn’t to succumb to their demands, it’s to cease using their platform. I promise you, you can do without Facebook (or insert any other problematic platform).
Besides, it’s not like age gating is going to prevent children from getting on under their parents ID. My kid has been trying for months to get us to use our IDs to get them full access to Roblox. My spouse might cave but for my annoying and stubborn insistence that that’s a line we do not cross.
Unfortunately, in some communities, that's still impossible to do fully.
Hopefully that'll change with time. I'd love to see another mass migration to federated platforms.
Inconvenient ≠ impossible.
Exactly what I'm saying to the kids who argue that they can't function without it. My generation did, and it's easier for them having text and email, which I didn't have until I was in my mid-teens.