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The question is prompted by the age verification app that the EU has just presented.

Some EU countries want to ban social media for young people. If that were to happen, what then?

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[โ€“] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

From some things maybe. Plenty of recent "online safety" style laws around the world have no exceptions based on platform size.