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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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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (27 children)

Everyone here is going to say: "Be a parent."

It's a meaningless platitude.

That is not a policy idea and sounds a whole lot to me like "just recycle, bro" and we can readily look around us and see that expecting individuals to act responsibly is shitty public policy.

I understand the hysteria over providing ID's, but understand, the social media companies already have all of your information as a user. You're sacrificing your privacy and that of your kids by using them to begin with. Providing and ID is just a formality, and an easy one, because it's something that (obviously) only an adult can provide.

This game is only won by not playing to begin with and disallowing any electronics in the home, at least until there is meaningful regulation of algorithmically-elevated content and mandatory human moderation.

[–] qaeta@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If they already have our information, then they don't need our ID for any legitimate purpose.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The government has all your info but you still have to show ID to vote.

Requiring an ID is a useful way to regulate many things, like ensuring children cannot access social media.

[–] qaeta@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 weeks ago

Yes, show, not give. There is a huge difference. In person, you can show them and know that they don't have a copy squirrelled away somewhere. With digital, you have to give them a copy, and you have no real way of knowing if they kept a copy or not. And given how untrustworthy these corpos are, they almost certainly did.

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