@moveincircles: They say: "protecting children from social media" They mean: "anonymous users will be presumed underage and banned from…
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A tweet criticizes the argument that protecting children from social media is being used as a pretext to presume anonymous users are underage and ban them from speaking freely.
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They say: “protecting children from social media”
They mean: “anonymous users will be presumed underage and banned from speaking freely”
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