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Hot take but kids don’t need social media actually
Actual Orwellian lawmaking over in the UK
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Anonymous 21w

I honestly don’t see how ID verification for social media would differ much from ID verification for porn sites (in some states) and buying 18/21+ products online. Having a social media account is not a right, and children are subject to restrictions on actual constitutional rights anyway for their own protection (particularly first amendment rights in schools)

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Anonymous 21w

Ok and neither do you, and yet here we are. If parents don’t want their kids to have social media, that’s their choice. A blanket ban backed by mandatory third party ID verification is grossly authoritarian

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