alt Hacker NewsThe problem is we’re regulating individual behavior by adding to the surveillance apparatus. We should be regulating the companies and dismantling the surveillance that makes the apps addictive to kids.
It’s a way of socializing the losses, this time you lose civil liberties and they get to keep acting unrestricted
Regulating the companies also socializes the costs of implementing age verification measures.
The correct solution that does not do this is to put liability on the parents.