@moveincircles: They say: "protecting children from social media" They mean: "anonymous users will be presumed underage and banned from…
Summary
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.
View Cached Full Text
Cached at: 06/10/26, 11:55 PM
They say: “protecting children from social media”
They mean: “anonymous users will be presumed underage and banned from speaking freely”
Similar Articles
The UK's Teen Social Media Ban Is Political Theater, Not Child Safety Policy
The article argues that the UK's proposed ban on teen social media use is more about political posturing than effective child safety measures.
UK declares under-16 social media ban to protect children, but experts warn of enforcement challenges
The UK announces a ban on social media for under-16s, modeled on Australian legislation, aiming to protect children but facing enforcement challenges.
@elonmusk: Exactly
Elon Musk endorses Mike Solana's claim that the British government's push to remove online anonymity is about punishing dissent, not protecting young people.
Kids are outsmarting social media bans. That’s not a problem we need to solve.
评论文章指出，法国、英国、欧盟等地纷纷推出儿童社交媒体禁令，但澳大利亚的经验显示青少年极易绕过年龄限制；作者认为规避行为本身是信号，强制年龄验证反而会损害隐私并将孩子推向更高风险的网络角落，应转向更智能、更灵活的保护政策。
Age verification for social media, the beginning of the end for a free internet?
The article argues that global efforts to mandate age verification for social media, ostensibly to protect children, actually risk enabling widespread government surveillance and control over the internet, undermining privacy and democratic rights.