Curbing kids' social media means ID checks for every adult, the thread warns (reuters.com)
Reuters rounds up a wave of near-simultaneous laws restricting minors' access to social platforms. A reader back in the UK described the lived version: he can't read half of X without handing over a government ID to prove he's an adult.
The argument wasn't whether kids should be protected, it was the mechanism. Engineers sketched cryptographic age-proofs that reveal one bit and nothing else, then asked why the actual laws reach for face scans and license uploads instead.
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