> threads about children and social media or short form video will draw a lot of comments supporting harsh age restrictions
I think there should be age restrictions. I prefer to do it in a privacy-preserving way. But I’m also not happy about conditioning the former on the existence of the latter.
One component is to stop building tools that exploit impressionable minds.
Outside of better parental controls and restricting accounts based on self declared age, there isn't a way to perform age verification anonymously or privately.