I’m asking for public policy ideas here. A lot of countries are enacting age verification now. But of course this is a privacy nightmare and is ripe for abuse. At the same time though, I also understand why people are concerned with how kids are using social media. These products are designed to be addictive and are known to cause body image issues and so forth. So what’s the middle ground? How can we protect kids from the harms of social media in a way that respects everyone’s privacy?

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    1 day ago

    There are some good comments on this thread that talk about public policy (beyond just ‘be a parent bro’) that do not require handing over any IDs or other compromising info to big tech. That would be the ideal solution in my opinion