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That could work but I would rather the responsibility remain where it already legally exists and get parents to start parenting at risk of fines, mandatory parental training and community service if they do not.

Creating a wall for children with no path forward will not prepare them for the real world. Too many young adults have unrealistic expectations of the world but that's a much bigger topic. Preparedness has to start somewhere almost none of which is occurring at the moment.

People that do not have small children should not be involved in anything related to age/ID verification which corporations would have to inflict on everyone to enforce children/teens not be on social media. I for one will not be participating in age/ID verification for anything beyond federal taxes and I know I am not alone.

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> which corporations would have to inflict on everyone to enforce children/teens not be on social media

Everyone on social media. (I hate the proposals that punt this to literally everyone by doing anything on device.)

Also, this is solved with a two-way fine: one for kids being on, one for retaining age-verification data.

> Creating a wall for children with no path forward

Kids do fine with age gates around cigarettes and booze. Even though practically everyone breaks the latter law.

Also, those walls exist. Device restrictions exist in rich communities. Social media is increasingly a tax on poor children.

cigarettes and booze

That comes up a lot in these debates. You and I know full well that it is not even remotely the same. I show an ID to a clerk and that is where that ID ended. The only thing that clerk has to protect themselves from is an undercover cop sending in a minor to by cigarettes or booze. There's no centralized system correlating my cash purchase at the liquor store and other stores around town. That's where the ID trail ended. I leave the building there is no copy of my ID following me around town like a billboard on my forehead.

No, the age/ID government/corporate collusion scam on the internet is going to end one way or another otherwise we get Scroogle Ad-Sense v5.5vbis ID/Financial History tracking up the backside. Everyone will be wearing their bank account information on their forehead everywhere they go on the internet.

uBlock, PiHole, NoScript and others will have some heavy ahead of them to block what's coming assuming that will be an option.

> You and I know full well that it is not even remotely the same. I show an ID to a clerk and that is where that ID ended

Some scan IDs into god knows what. It’s not required. But if consumers don’t push back, it happens.

Again, just make the law require destruction with the teeth of severe fines. This is highly solvable.