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> threads about children and social media or short form video will draw a lot of comments supporting harsh age restrictions I think there should be age restric
by JumpCrisscross 7mo ago
> threads about children and social media or short form video will draw a lot of comments supporting harsh age restrictions
I think there should be age restrictions. I prefer to do it in a privacy-preserving way. But I’m also not happy about conditioning the former on the existence of the latter.
- EmbarrassedHelp 7mo agoOutside of better parental controls and restricting accounts based on self declared age, there isn't a way to perform age verification anonymously or privately.
- JumpCrisscross 7mo ago> isn't a way to perform age verification anonymously or privately Totally, no. Better than having users upload IDs with no use restrictions on the social-media companies? Yes. The harms justify, in my opinion and the opinion of lots of Americans (and importantly, those able and willing to call their electeds), a little bit of privacy encroachment for using a totally-voluntary product.
- hackable_sand 7mo agoOne component is to stop building tools that exploit impressionable minds.
- JumpCrisscross 7mo agoThey exploit all minds. But adults can make that choice responsibly. Kids cannot. We age gate alcohol and cigarettes. Social media is no different.