This is not about protecting children. This is about clamping down on civilian rights to control the internet and indeed, civilian ability to communicate freely.
If children are being harmed (and they are, more than we’d like to imagine), the answer is simple: shut down social media.
Seriously. Yes we’d lose time wasting places like this. Yes we wouldn’t be as tuned into media ongoings. I’m sure many here will chime in to say how HN or similar has saved their life.
Don’t care, social media isn’t more important than the health of our children. And these companies have shown they don’t care and that profit is more important.
Thus, they needn’t exist.
But that won’t ever even be on the table. Because they don’t give a flying fuck about children. They want profits and control.