I’m asking for public policy ideas here. A lot of countries are enacting age verification now. But of course this is a privacy nightmare and is ripe for abuse. At the same time though, I also understand why people are concerned with how kids are using social media. These products are designed to be addictive and are known to cause body image issues and so forth. So what’s the middle ground? How can we protect kids from the harms of social media in a way that respects everyone’s privacy?

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      Yeah, no that does not sound right. Maybe just “make personalized algorithms opt in”? But as this would be heavily lobbied by meta and bytedance probably, maybe just a switch to have the option if anything :(