[segasaturn]

I agree with everything you're saying about how hard the privacy issue is, but would also like to add that the social media companies are incentivized to act like they have no idea how to implement a solution, because they want teens using their apps. The Facebook Files make it abundantly clear that social companies see teen users are their most valuable asset, since the rest of the culture tends to follow where teens go. When the social companies, who are collectively worth tens of trillions of dollars, say they don't know how to implement the law without convoluted, privacy-destroying, digital government IDs I just don't buy it.

[like_any_other]

The government passed the law, and funds lots of universities with CS and cryptography programs. If there was a privacy-preserving solution, they could have proposed it themselves. Just because someone is motivated to say something, doesn't mean they're wrong.