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JumpCrisscrossyesterday at 7:52 PM2 repliesview on HN

> 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.


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EmbarrassedHelpyesterday at 8:15 PM

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.

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hackable_sandyesterday at 8:39 PM

One component is to stop building tools that exploit impressionable minds.

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