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Laws restricting social media access based on age are spreading across the globe—from Australia and the UK to Indonesia, Malaysia, Brazil, and the EU. These policies create serious risks for privacy, free expression, and access to information. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

eff.orgInternet Age-Gates Are a Growing Global ThreatThe internet is an essential resource for young people and adults to access information, explore community, and find themselves—both inside countries and across continents. Yet governments around the

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The situation with alcohol and social media bans/id verifications to use your own computer or the internet aren't even remotely comporable . More people are gonna flock to the dark web and it's all just a slippery slope from there .

This is more akin to punishing all adults cause a few parents can't be bothered to parent. Imagine a govt mandates cctv in your bathroom cause some people shove coke down the toilet .

Read the room EFF. The addictive, rabbit-hole designs are harming users, especially kids, and need regulating like gambling, tobacco and alcohol. If you want to buy booze at a store, get ready to show some government ID. No different.

Even japan one of the more restrictive societies said nah this might be pushing things too far . The east is literally becoming more west than the west because people in power wanna spy on you and your children lol .

These age verification companies boast about a 95% accuracy rate, as if that's the best they can do. That's getting it wrong 1 time in every 20. That isn't a reliable protection against anything, that's just a stochastic bully.

The reality is, these ID databases just become massive targets for hackers, and the lists of confirmed children even moreso, and you know exactly what kind of person will be paying for those lists of confirmed children.