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An appropriate punishment would be: All children's accounts must be deleted and no new ones for minors allowed to exist for 2 years.

Any further infringement and the App is banned from the EU.

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This would require all TikTok users to submit selfie + ID for verification and all those who don't would need to be assumed to be children and have their accounts deleted, right?

That's the end goal, so anonymity is basically destroyed on the internet, and people are condemned to digital dystopia and inescapable surveillance under the guise of "protecting the children".

That's how it already works for youtube. The EU mandated you need to prove to google that you are of age to watch certain videos.

How's that supposed to be enforced if the kids lie about their ages?

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