Hard no. Reality is that this push is everywhere. Authoritarian governments are cracking down hard on dissent, they're not going to leave huge platforms for communication untouched. We'll need open source decentralized alternatives.

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accrual 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Indeed, the article basically says as much in more pacifying terms:

> driven by an international legal push for age checks and stronger child safety measures

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SoftTalker 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

HN: Social media is terrible and ruining kids' mental health.

Also HN: Any attempt to limit access to verified adults is an "authoritarian crackdown" and totally unacceptable.

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z0r 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Children generally have these things called "parents" who are supposedly responsible for their well being. Oh hey, suddenly there isn't a contradiction.

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SoftTalker 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Right, helicopter parenting. Gets a lot of praise here, I forgot.

	▲	iso1631 an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Empower parents. Parental controls are a minefield - especially with competing companies (ea, microsoft, steam, nintendo, apple) all doing their best to get you to turn them off so they can push lootboxes and other junk more easily.
	▲	hiccup_socks 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		you may be surprised to learn that you can be a parent and have rules without being a "helicopter parent". given your other bad faith comments in this thread, though, im sure you know that and are just trying to be contrarian for... fun? is it fun?

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pseudalopex 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

HN commenters are many. Not 1. And 1 person can believe 2 things are bad.

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enforcer0912 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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