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1. How do regulators expect Airlines to verify the real age of users (without further intrusions of privacy)?

2. How do the regulators expect Airline companies to verify the parents of child users?

3. Do regulators want airlines to collect every child's birth certificate?

See how silly this sounds when you compare to any other industry?

Oh but tech is different!

Indeed. I mean, on the one hand, all that tech is indeed different - but on the other hand, it's not the law of physics that it has to exist in a form that makes compliance difficult. A service not existing, or existing in a vastly different form, are options too - options the tech industry doesn't want to talk about.

And FWIW, it's third-generation mobile-first social media platforms we're talking about. It's hard to make a case they're not a huge net negative for society. In any other thread, people would happily agree they shouldn't exist in the current form in the first place.

Airlines check government issued ID against a central database when you fly. This is standard and expected in air travel, and is not in social media.

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