Comment by tsoukase
13 days ago
Not only this but every age verification system will create an immense motive for the kids to obtain an "adult pass". Money, uncles, "family engineering" on parents or obscure paths will be used by the kid to become a hero to their peers. In a few months/years the system will degenerate and become abandoned.
That (mostly) doesn't happen for booze or cigs today. You're alleging that kids will behave like heroin junkies in order to access social media. If that's true, social media is more dangerous than we thought, and we should be having a very different conversation.
Electronic screens are "audiovisual drugs" delivered in hour-dosages through the sensory organs. After any type of ban there will be a craze by spoiled kids and/or spoiling parents to get a pass. And these are the people that the ban targets in the first place. Results from Australia's expirement are coming mediocre.
Like I said, if social media is actually more like heroin than tobacco then mere age-restriction is not the answer. We're going to, as they say, need a bigger boat.