Ah yes, the genocides, fascists and blackmail are just delightful parts of that awesome internet that any kind of cooperative governance would simply _ruin_

genocides are happening online? That's pretty remarkable.

The genocides would have happened with age verification or not, don't conflate the two.

Ironically, the solution to both the proliferation of genocide and social media causing harm to kids is the same, and it's a solution that helps everyone: legislate the source of the problem, the product itself and what we colloquially call "the algorithm".

Algorithmic optimization and manipulation that causes harm needs to be banned wholesale, across the board, from advertising to social media.

Instead, we get legislation that not only makes it easier to identify everyone as verifiably monetizable users to platforms, it also makes it easier to keep the proles in their place.