Denmark’s government has announced a plan to ban social media access for anyone under 15. The Ministry of Digitalization has led the move, allowing some parents to consent for children as young as 13 after assessment.
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Idea is great, motivation is great, but as usual:
It’s the net. You simply can’t enforce that. Technically. It might help a literal handful of totally technically challenged kids to not gain access. Unless they have friends who’d show them how.
And even IF it could magically work, big tech could simply ignore that. See e.g. steam, who, instead of enforcing age-verification for Germany, they just totally banned access for Germans to relevant titles. “Not worth the hassles”.