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Re:School district sues Meta, Google, and TikTok over ‘menta... by woodruffw on Saturday June 03, 2023 @08:01AM (#36175921)
> IMO social media should age check by law.

They do[1]. Most social media sites in the US don't allow children under 13 to use their sites, as a matter of policy. There have been proposals to expand COPPA to other forms of tracking and to children under 16.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children's_Online_Privacy_Prot...

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Re:School district sues Meta, Google, and TikTok over ‘menta... by brandon272 on Saturday June 03, 2023 @09:37AM (#36176581)
To be clear, “age checking” involves nothing more than having the user enter their birthdate via a datepicker. Not exactly the same kind of verification used for things like cigarettes or alcohol.
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Re:School district sues Meta, Google, and TikTok over ‘menta... by woodruffw on Saturday June 03, 2023 @10:09AM (#36176809)
Right. The alternative would be mandatory identification to websites, which would be a gross violation of user privacy, and impossible under the US’s current ID schemes.
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Re:School district sues Meta, Google, and TikTok over ‘menta... by izacus on Saturday June 03, 2023 @10:51AM (#36177138)
You can use parental tools to disable these apps. Demanding thar whole world uploads private IDs to sites to check age because you refuse to parent well is absurd.
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