[zug_zug]

> A lot of modern technology is harming kids (and I don't mean dirty videos, social media seems to be much more harmful).

If that's all we want then that's trivial -- just make certain phones that don't have access to social media, or have whatever limitations enforced. And kids only get those phones. I don't think anybody's addicted to desktop social media.

This gets us the privacy and the protection at once.

[intended]

It likely would! It is also probably the better solution all in all.

However society doesn’t have the stomach for that (yet).

Also, as the article correctly identified, society is gearing up to deal with other types of crime online.

[inigyou]

That's how the California act works, but we lumped it under "age verification" anyway. If you have to select whether the device is for someone over or under 18 in a drop-down menu, apparently that's "age verification"