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UK police chiefs call for ban on social media for under-16s
(www.theguardian.com)
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By age checking everybody connecting to social media
Which would require submitting personal information, like IDs, to social media organizations. You could do it better (i.e. through a disinterested third party or the government), but how likely is that to actually happen?
I'm against it mostly on privacy grounds, but also on free speech grounds. Parents should be the ones deciding this, not governments.