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I have absolutely no answers to this issue but I do see the futility to this.

1. Parents are wholly incapable to control their kid's use of these apps as they will find alternate devices, borrow from a friend, outsmart any control apps, etc.

2. The apps in question have been proven to be designed to psychologically entrap their users. They have also been proven to push psychologically-damaging content, regardless of viewer's age.

So I can see a world in which it would be helpful to find a way to restrict what a child can see when online instead of the current situation in which a 10 year old can easily watch videos of beheadings and extreme porn, plan up a meeting with a pedophile or murderer and join 4chan's /b where they can talk about anything under the sun.

The issue, as I see it, is that the suggestions made by the politicians will do nothing to curb teen use online as they will most assuredly find ways to bypass any checks. What will happen(and is probably intended) instead is that the gov't will have more info to use against every citizen, corporations will have more data to compile on their ̶p̶r̶o̶d̶u̶c̶t̶ customers and people that should be able to view said content will be falsely blocked while people that shouldn't will be able to.

I'm glad my daughter was growing up in a time before the streamlining and enhancement of the corpo trend of emotional and psychological damage for profit.