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‘Where do we go now?’: Malaysia’s under-16 social media ban leaves teens detached and displaced (www.straitstimes.com)
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[–] wpb@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The MCMC dictates that platforms must eventually implement robust age verification against government-issued records such as the national identity card called MyKad, or passports. Tech companies have been granted a six-month grace period to fully integrate a rigorous age-verification system for users aged 16 and above.

This is nothing but an anti-privacy measure, and discussing it in good faith as a child protection measure is playing into their propaganda. Discussing the merits of these "age-verification" laws as such is about as dumb as agreeing to refer to anti-abortion as pro-life when you yourself are pro-abortion.

Oh and agreeing with these "age-verification" laws because you want to save the children is even dumber.