Sure also, when a database is queried,: only return the exact string with no 'suggestions'. in fact no suggestions ever at all.

After the world's experience of Donald Trump, it would be foolish to believe that any national leader "won't go there." If not the current one, the next one.

Look at trump's usa and their treatment of Francesca Albanese as a perfect example of how personal data can be misused to target an individual.

People say 'our government won't do this', and yes, they may be right....but what about a future one?

That's where all this is heading .

That being said, This is absolutely one head of the hydra that is working to ruin the web, democracy, the environment, etm

Sites that were run by people not corps were safer, and more fun.But you know know capitalism or something.

Moderated social media on smaller websites is what many of us grew up with, and it is manageable. Facebook, Twitter and Reddit just don’t want to do the job, so they shouldn’t have the privilege of hosting such platforms. This is just an attempt to shielld them from their responsibilities to their users.

It's easy to kick down to an underrepresented group in politics. It's disrespectful and antidemocratic.

Plus, this was never about the children. This is about control. Surveillance. Tools for governments to control who is online. You just need one autocratic government (USA...) to use this to target dissidents

I nearly choked on a mouthful of water while reading "a lot of kids I talked to..."
The first time I read that line I thought, "Which kids? Ones in pre- school who will agree with anything if you offer a piece of candy?"

so far the gatekeep I’ve been seeing used as of late is give us your credit card number before you can proceed to prove you’re an adult, which is ridiculous

I just recently did not sign up for ghost as an adult to try it out because they demanded my card upfront

Bad idea...

Call Off Your Dogs | BobbyHiltz.com

This post discusses recent laws banning social media for adolescents

(bobbyhiltz.com)

Regulate the tech companies instead

Good point!

Whereas the problem lies *entirely* with the business model of attention harvesting with surveillance-based advertising at its base. The latter is not only a dumpster fire of privacy violations but the tools to support it are also profoundly anti-democratic; the whole thing should not be regulated but destroyed outright.

So, no, we should see this drive for age verification for what it is — an attempt to tie every user on the internet to a strong identity, a base for enabling mass-surveillance and mass-censorship.

Quebec MP Rachel Bendayan, who presented the idea to her caucus and championed it at the convention, said <strike>prolonged</strike> <bold>any</b> social media use can be harmful to the mental health of <strike>young</strike> Canadians.

There, fixed that for ya.