That's because we should be regulating the social media industry rather than regulating social media users.

Unfortunately, social media users don't have billions of dollars to spend on lobbying and related activities around the world.

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Aurornis 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> That's because we should be regulating the social media industry rather than regulating social media users.

These lawsuits and regulations are against the industry, not the users.

The regulations and lawsuits are driving the pressure to ID check users and remove end-to-end encryption.

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jimbokun 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The ask is to treat users differently based on age. How can they do that without verifying their users age?

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b00ty4breakfast 2 hours ago | parent [-]

we should be removing the harmful aspects of modern social, which are harmful for everyone not just minors, by making them unprofitable or even outright illegal.

Instead we are saying "only adults should use this" which, while technically regulating the industry, places the restriction on users.

We're treating it like tobacco or alcohol (2 industries who have similarly spent millions upon millions of dollars in lobbying efforts) but we should be treating it like asbestos.

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jimbokun 2 hours ago | parent [-]

OK, so what would be in the text of this law making it enforceable and not easily game-able by the social media companies and without severe unintended consequences?

	▲	dminik 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Why are you asking lawmaker questions of people on HN? What kind of answer are you expecting? Just because I don't know how to write a law that can prevent it doesn't mean that I can't recognize an actual issue when I see it.