Social media bans for minors

"To enact the social media bans being proposed around the world requires some system of age verification, which inherently means expanding surveillance technology."

I was all in on the idea of restricting social media for minors after learning about Internet addiction, AI-induced teen suicides, and online pedophile predators. This story has given me an "aha moment". I don't think that I was alone in breezily thinking that age restrictions would affect only minors. When you think about it everyone would have to verify their age to access the internet. That would require government ID in some form along with biometric verification.

It seems that the Internet Pandora's Box cannot be shut...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/02/ban-children-social-media-biometic-data-surveilled

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