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This whole conversation is such a false dichotomy. The laws can absolutely be written such that companies are required to suspend service to any suspected child without requiring ID to use the service.
But just like pollution and everything else we've let them push the buck to us.
The problem is that politicians don't want to legislate enforcement/oversight entities as those would piss off their owners.
Democracies need to replace their lame duck politicians with ones that aren't bought and owned by the shareholder class who also own the social media corporations.
The laws shouldn't focus on "harming children" so much, but on "harming humans".
The big tech companies should be held responsible for the actual damage they are inflicting upon society, and their methods to artificially inflate "engagement" (or whatever the hell they call it) should be held to scrutiny. Whether or not the damage is inflicted upon an underage person or an adult, is merely a distraction.
Those assholes would love it if we all had to identify ourselves and prove our age, if it means they get to keep inflicting their shit upon us.
I agree but like that's a much bigger discussion.
I think there is an immediate opportunity to mitigate harm in the long term that doesn't require us finding a perfect solution to corporate-greed(capitalism).
Similar to how prohibiting tobacco sales to minors has drastically reduced the number of smokers. Ask anyone over 70 when they started smoking. Almost all of them started when they were young teenagers.
No.
Wow what petulant response. A brief overview of your comments indicates I was wasting my time responding to you in good faith. I sincerely apologize.
Authoritarian bootlickers get no consideration. "No" is what you get.
lmao wtf kid grow up