If (big if) governments really wanted to help parents and children in any meaningful way, they would ban the actual hardware used to give constant access to th

If (big if) governments really wanted to help parents and children in any meaningful way, they would ban the actual hardware used to give constant access to these platforms. The ability to seamlessly record, upload, comment, react on _everything_, _everwhere_, _all the time_ is not natural, and not necessary. Let them keep the devices, whatever, but remove the internet access. Or keep the internet access, but remove the display/audio/camera. It's more enforceable in public than trying to enforce whatever age verification solution they come up with. And it gives parents the ability to appeal to authority when they ask their children, and the parents of their child's friends, to stop giving kids access to such devices. Right now a lone parent trying to push for better/healthier online activity to their friend group looks like a crazy person. But of course we know they aren't really interested in helping parents and children. They want the surveillance capabilities.