Kids being banned from social media is just one side of the coin. _Everyone_ else being forced to KYC with random websites is the other. I can’t help but wonder, which of the two outcomes is the actual goal here.

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PunchyHamster 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

It's wet dream of politicians that think the key to reducing crime is invigilation. So, that goal

I don't think there is all that many politicians gullible enough to think that kind of massive breach of privacy is a worthy tradeoff

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denismi 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

So far I haven't been KYCd by anything.

Aside from YouTube I don't particularly engage with any of these often, but my Google, Facebook, Discord, Twitter, Bluesky, (current) Reddit, Slack, Telegram accounts all seem to be BAU without new requirements.

If the 80% of us currently holding unambiguously-over-16 accounts are exempt, and it only affects future over-16 users as they're onboarded, then it is a very blunt and very slow form of data harvesting which won't yield useful results until years/decades after all of the relevant decision-makers have moved on, retired and/or died. So this seems unlikely?

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denkmoon 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Nobody is forcing you to use facebook

	▲	wiredpancake 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		You're right, but Social Media was one of the last places one could be critical of the Government whilst also being anonymous or pesudo-anonymous.