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Why not remove all age restrictions then? I mean, you can get drunk or start smoking as a teen if you really want to. Yet many don't, because is iconvenient.
And I also don't buy this 'kids get cut off' shit at all. You can use Youtube without an account, no problem. You still have easy access to news and websites. You can still network with other people and join, for example, group chats or TS servers. Heck, it's like, what? 10 Platforms that are (semi-)banned? Half of the people on earth grew up without social media at all, yet some people talk about this like it's the air they breath.
That very fact just reinforces my suport for the ban a lot. If you really need social media, just go to the fediverse dammit. It is incidentally not banned and almost guaranteed to be better than the dataharvesting ragebait shitshow with gambling ads that's mainstream social media these days.
You fundamentaly misunderstand the issue with it. Nobody needs to collect IDs of every single adult to prevent kids from buying cigarettes or alcohol. Yet that's what is happening with social media and "adult" content as they are convenient vectors to justity invasive data collection.
I would support a complete ban for everyone as it would eliminate the data collection, but since this is not about kids but instead about that data collection in the first place that will never happen.
You do realise that the government collects your ID when they’re made? And then you need to show that ID to buy a pack of smokes right?