[elric]

Age Verification and "banning kids from social media" are two different things. The former being an overzealous method of achieving the latter.

Parental responsibility and better parental controls would be a MUCH better way of going about this.

Of course, the polling public is blissfully unaware of the wide ranging consequences of such an Age Verification implementation. People will continue to pave the road to fascist hell with good intentions.

[Gigachad]

What the public perceives it to be is the only thing that matters though. The OP question was asking how governments are getting this through, and the answer is the majority approve of what they see to be happening.

The average person is not thinking about the ability for journalists and whistleblowers to create anonymous Facebook accounts, they are thinking about Mark Zuckerberg trying to sell sex chatbots to their kids and discord pedo servers.

[farfatched]

> Parental responsibility and better parental controls would be a MUCH better way of going about this.

Call we do all three?

Also, what about the irresponsible parents, or parents who don't have time/opportunity to be responsible over this issue?