Nuggsy

This is my biggest issue with it.

Social media has become a blight on society on all levels. Not just children.

But, there’s a lack of education or push for children, and adults too, to be smarter online. They’re just instituting laws and legislation and pushing the onus on corporations to comply.

Sounds good at face value but doesn’t factor in smaller companies who are unable to afford the changes needed to comply (resulting in the pulling out of a region) or they institute dodgey 3rd party verification systems that will just on-sell your data.

Then, there’s the world of dodgey VPNs that kids and people have rushed to. Also, as other people have said, children have found work arounds for age verification.

So, what’s the point? What did we actually achieve? I sometimes defer to the old addage of never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity. Sometimes I feel it’s more like naievity or good intenaions being controlled by malicious forces.

I don’t know.

What I feel though is that it just doesn’t feel like it’s truly about the children. If it is, there should be a whole lot more factored into this.

Instead it feels like a half baked plan being sold to us as being for the children.