I know a great way to get kids to stop doing something!
Tell them it isn't allowed.
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this post was submitted on 22 Jul 2026
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Who would have EVER known...
well, obviously it just wasn't banned hard enough. Give them even more access to identifying information and they can fix this.
Meanwhile IMO forced verification of users had a much better success rate ๐
i wish they had spent some time looking at the effectiveness of both combined instead of just this one little blurb:
lying about age on verification prompts (57%),
that's roughly the same percentage of americans who can see a genocide live streamed to the palm of their hands every day and still won't accept that it's a genocide.
