How are they supposed to do that without gathering even more personal info from us? This is something both companies have repeatedly proven incapable of keeping secure.
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That is precisely the goal. They don't give a shit about children or online safety. It's possible that they just want some ostensibly child-friendly policy to be able to point at for the sake of their dim constituency, but I think it's more likely that they want an easier time tracking down your online activities to a real-world identity.
How does this stop them from just going to the website? Like, am I just too old or too computer literate or something to "get it"? These all exist outside of apps...
It's just the beginning. They can absolutely do it. China and South Korea do it by linking your ID and phone number to essential apps that are used for everything
In practice, yes, this is basically impossible to enforce. It's just a way to steal more data from the people
Was not expecting to see New Mexico in there.
Also Hawaii.
In a perfect world, this sort of thing would be okay. There are things on the internet that young people should not see until they are old enough to process it.
However, I think we know this will be abused and just become another way to track you.
We just can’t have nice things.