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Florida House of Representatives approves bill to ban social media for kids under 16
(www.goodmorningamerica.com)
this post was submitted on 26 Jan 2024
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Is this based on a gov ID? I didn't see that in the article.
How else do you think they'd do age verification? It's the same way they do it for porn sites, you upload you DL/passport/ID to verify your age. The difference here is that now these ~~data broker~~ social media companies now have a hard link to your identity instead of a pretty strong inference, and are able to shore up their advertising profiles in an unprecedented way.
Yep, that's how they do it in Korea and China too