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> I guess the logic is that if a user is lying about their age, it's not the sites problem.

If the law is to have any teeth at all, it should be the problem of the service provider.

Say for example that a banned feature for minors is having media feeds based on past watching behavior. Lacking a reliable age verification it's simple for social media companies to remove the feature entirely for all users, if it's unreasonable or impossible for them to implement age verification.




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