alt Hacker News> We have the results of what happens when kids grow up with no actual age verification on the internet or with video games.
A mental illness epidemic? [0]
[0] https://www.afterbabel.com/p/the-teen-mental-illness-epidemi...
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Spivak • 05/02/2025
Right but you have to look at this data honestly because we have one and a half generations of people who grew up with an unrestricted, and arguably worse in terms of content, internet. If you're going to point to a cause it had better be something in the set of things that didn't affect millennials or older gen-z, stuff like violent and pornographic content clearly aren't in it.
Amongst gen z, who were more restricted than millenials