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You're out here advocating for draconian restrictions on all adults because you don't want to have to deal with placing similar restrictions on either your kids or yourself.

You just listed multiple places where you could be applying targeted restrictions to get the effect you espouse but instead are advocating for tracking on any art or conversations that could be deemed offensive to the most reactionary busy body.

The worst part is this age gating won't actually work, 18 year olds know 17 year olds know 16 year olds... No age verification is going to stop kids accessing whatever most offends your sensibilities, the point of being a good parent is being involved enough in a kids life that you can notice and stop excesses in bad behaviour early and encourage doing positive actions and forming good habits constantly because you and they can't succeed all the time, but you don't need to.

Arguing for these restrictions is the same logic that arguing that burkas should be mandatory because clearly if woman don't appear attractive there would be less sexual crime against woman rather than putting the impetus on the ones committing the crime. You may be right in that it occasionally achieves the goal but it's a horrendous way to do it and you make the world a worse place for those you're claiming you want to help.

Also "What happens when your idea of safety doesn’t align with the platform holder?" You seem to be arguing against yourself as you're saying that individual's preferences don't align with other groups but want to align standards based on distinct age groups mandated by the government.