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There is no way this would be "the best" or even a good thing at all, any time before we have the US equivalent of the GDPR that keeps every company from simply
by mindslight 2mo ago
There is no way this would be "the best" or even a good thing at all, any time before we have the US equivalent of the GDPR that keeps every company from simply demanding full ID, laws prohibiting the sale of locked down computing devices where privileged keys are installed by the manufacturer (ie ban remote attestation that's capable computational disenfranchisement), and a culture of respecting privacy so that such requirements would be unthinkable to apply to Internet connections, P2P communications, and the like.
As things stand, the only sensible way to keep kids off of social media, porn, etc is client side filtering and controls. It would be straightforward to write legislation that requires device manufacturers to make parental control settings available in the setup stage, and require websites over a certain number of users to publish content labels asserting suitability for people under 18, 13, etc. Every other approach is a backdoor mandate for identity verification, dishonestly cloaked as "age verification" for "protecting the children". And I say this as a parent who will be staring down the digital heroin industry in a few short years.