If the solution consists on me and my children sacrificing our privacy then I'm sorry, but I don't care about other people's children getting groomed.

Your child, your responsibility, prepare him better for the world or throw the god damn phone to the trash, but please leave me alone.

I had more sympathy for parents with this problem before, but not anymore. If they don't respect my rights, I don't see why I should care about them.

Other people’s kids aren’t your problem until they grow up and form a deeply unfit electorate and their country, representing less than 5% of the world population, makes an absolute mess of everything. Then they become everyone’s problem.

> I don't care about other people's children getting groomed.

These other people’s children will be your own children’s bullies tomorrow and narcissistic bosses and politicians or similar gang members the day after.

Fact is, we need to find solutions against child abuse in any shape or form that work given the circumstances and decision making of other people around us. We do not exist in isolation. I don’t think age verification in any way contributes positively to this problem space, and I don’t even think online grooming is near any top spot on the list of child abuse vectors that need addressing, but that doesn’t mean that the problem and our contribution to it (like looking away and doing nothing) should be denied as a whole.

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