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The Register | House of "Lords" in the Anglo Entity votes to ban social media for under-16s
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Yeah it's not something I hate in principle, but kids are just gonna gravitate to unregulated apps, sites, and stuff no different to how people have navigated the porn ban.
All the while, everyone else is encouraged to set up digital identification and age verification which definitely wont be used as infrastructure to implement the torment nexus