LuniioElon Musk calls Spanish PM a ‘tyrant’ over plan to ban under-16s from social media and curb hateful content
Broken clock is right, but for the wrong reasons (i.e. like a broken clock).
age-gating social media = obligatory ID verification for social media access
Do you trust your government to handle your ID data safely and in a way that law enforcement etc. can’t access without proper cause? This is definitely going to get used to do police raids and years-long device seizures on people who call dick politicians dicks (the process is the punishment).
If you actually want to protect children, force operating system manufacturers or home internet hardware manufacturers to implement child filters that work reliably.
teeaaYour government likely already has your ID data that law enforcement can see. I much rather trust the government (or banking systems like in Finland) to handle the age verification than some private enterprises that can be hacked and the information stolen, like already happened with Discord.