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If social media for kids is so bad, should we be allowed to post kids’ photos online?
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this post was submitted on 11 Dec 2025
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Because everyone becomes subject to age verification.
Papers, please.
So don't go on platforms that require ID verification I guess. If you're coordinating anything subversive or threatening to the power structure on public-facing social media then you should have stopped doing that a long long time ago.
You're really saying "if you have nothing to hide then you have nothing to fear," and it's corollary, "only those who have something to hide require privacy?"
Were you born yesterday?
I was in Arab Spring. I've been doing public demonstrations for decades, including actions that change governments. Don't be naive. Public social media, ID verified or not, is not where you should be planning ops.
Not the guy you were talking to but I wonder, what do you think about privacy preserving age verification?
A site requests your age, this opens a 3rd party oauth or similar login where you can login without the site directly seeing it, you get a request similar to logging in with google and getting the "this site will see your email and real name", but the request will only contain your age. The third party will cryptographically sign the message containing only the request uuid and your age (or even just >18 or <18) and the site itself can verify that, but nothing more or less.