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requiring third party services is still problematic; i seriously do not trust any third party services to handle data as critical as ID.
having that leaked isn't like having your passwords or nudes leaked...it can seriously ruin entire lives!
I'd honestly rather have the government directly involved than some fuck-off "we're in it for the money", "how cheap can we go before we start leaking" company...
that said, i completely agree with the rest of what you said!
only i think that age restrictions is the wrong solution for the problem at hand, because it doesn't actually solve the problem.
the problem isn't (just) "kids have access to social media too early", the problem is "social media has become manipulative cesspool designed to brainwash entire populations"!
age verification doesn't solve issues like election interference, rising violence, privacy violations, misinformation, disinformation, etc, etc.
what does solve most, if not all, of those problems is properly regulating social media companies!
and it starts with forcing those companies to have open source, verified algorithms, to prevent them from being able to claim "they're committed to X", while blatantly ignoring any and all regulation.
the real problem is that just about nobody actually knows how exactly the massive social media platforms serve content, and how little control users have over their own algorithms.
solve that problem, and kids can be online just fine again! just like you and i were!
it is possible to return to a better internet, but that requires actually solving the root of the problem(s) at hand, instead of getting distracted with things like age verification, which, again, is just mass surveillance by a different name.