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That solution fails to sidestep the not minor issue of how do we determine it's a child online brought up by the article.

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> how do we determine it's a child online

Why not use passport verification for any enough big social network? Anyway there is almost impossible to use them anonymously.

Not only can you tie all of your speech to a government-issued ID, you can do it for the low price of $160 and a piece of ID that forty-percent of Americans will have no other use for!

So use a government ID instead

How's about we start testing for maturity, and despite a person being 45 years of age, their maturity tests to be 12 years of age, so no social media for them. That would actually be significantly better for everyone involved. But who can trust anyone with a "maturity test" and then who can be trusted to administer said test honestly? Perhaps our entire society is immature and nobody deserves social media?

Perhaps our entire society is immature...and it's time we grew tf up.

This is, in my opinion, a serious issue facing the human race today: we have a material number of flat out immature adults, and some of those immature idiots (looking at you Elon, and you Murdock, and many more) are far too powerful for their childish insatiable minds.

I don't disagree with that.

I just don't think banning people from the internet is the answer.

Who will test a maturity of maturity test developers? They will be kind of a shaping factor for a society.

My point was that such a test is impossible.

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