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Florida House of Representatives approves bill to ban social media for kids under 16 (www.goodmorningamerica.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Is this based on a gov ID? I didn't see that in the article.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Yep, that's how they do it in Korea and China too