@argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org
Post #1671219
2026-04-25 18:14 UTC
@quinn
Age verification not only won't solve that problem, it'll make that problem much, much worse. Corporate social media will still exist, kids will defeat the age verification, but alternatives like Mastodon will all be forced to shut down because they can't afford age verification.
And that problem affects adults just as much as kids, so even if age verification did work and didn't have the side effect of shutting down alternatives, it still wouldn't solve the problem.
@apz
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@argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org 2026-04-25 18:16
@quinn Radicalization and eating disorders aren't new phenomena, by the way. I very seriously doubt that even corporate social media is the true cause of this problem, simply because this problem long predates social media. @apz