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Yeah, except this isn't really about the children. This causes a lot of adults to face restrictions and submit their IDs to surveillance companies like Persona/Palantir. Also, I'm fairly certain you are aware why tying your identity to your browsing activity is a bad idea.
Also, there are noninvasive ways to implement this, like:
I do not think everyone (including adults without children) needs to suffer because some parents find it hard to do parent.
Also, I think this should be more about cracking down on addictive algorithms by social media companies (and holding them accountable) than enforcing a blanket ID collection. None of these laws do anything about that. Even adults are addicted to these platforms, and at best, all this law does is push the addiction until after 16 (in a realistic scenario, children can, and will circumvent this).