ST3LL4R

when I was a minor, the whole “age verification” thing did not exist. I grew up fine. all of my friends who had unlimited access to the internet grew up fine. you cannot “protect children” by demanding people’s private, personal information and expect kids to be protected from bad people this way.

“inappropriate contents” don’t harm children. bad people do. and you can’t protect children from bad people by demanding everybody’s personal information and government id.

(Obviously no one is saying keep everything online open to the world so everyone sees anything and everything. Childeren obviously shouldnt be seeing stuff like porn, so yes, clearly there has to be some type of censorship.)

The thing about the Internet is that its become a way of education. Meaning that ultimately, this is a government ploy which will lead to censorship of education and politics online. We all see news on media wether it's your average news site, instagram or tiktok. If childeren can't see it, they are fed what other people want them to see. The point is they don't want younger people to think for themselves and they want to mold them into some weird far right monster. It's a manipulation tactic.

If you want to protect the childeren so much, start with locking up the disgusting people who do actually take advantage of the media. Start by making sure big companies take accountability by actually making sure the media is safe, by blocking anything that actually IS harmful to people. It shouldn't even be an age thing.