[anakaine]

What a terrible argument. When social media is banned support material for those young people is distributed via other channels because, surprisingly, those providing support know that social media os no longer a viable policy.

An invasion of privacy is similarly a particularly vapid argument. Youth are not being invited to participate in social media once it is banned, there is no reach into their private realm and where face age estimation is being used that is data which is being provided willingly and with an understanding of its intended purpose. That in and of itself is not an invasion of privacy.

I will be quite surprised if these claims every make it past peer review and withstand scrutiny by the other social scientists who recommended social media onboarding delays.