nothing a social media ban for <13 years old kids can't solve, am I right?

Honestly they're going to push for these age limits and I don't even specifically disagree with some websites being not for under X, but verifying with some company's website and sending them your info sounds awful. I'd much rather use my country's existing id verification and use that to verify my age with the EU's age thing and use that for the websites.

This "problem" is nearly as old as the platform itself, as I can remember doing this as a child, when setting up my Hyves profile in the second half of the 2000's; but no, now is the time to wake up... Right when there's global efforts to "age" verify the internet, how coincidental...

They will be fined €10 per year until this is resolved.

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Just regulate the social media megacorps, not the access to them. I don't wanna present by papers at every military security checkpoint on my internets.

From the linked press release:

For example, when creating an account, minors below 13 can enter a false birth date that makes them at least 13 years old, with no effective controls in place to check the correctness of the self-declared date of birth.

Meta's tool for reporting minors under 13 on the platform is difficult to use and not effective, requiring up to seven clicks just to access the reporting form, which is not automatically pre-filled with the user's information. Even when a minor under 13 is reported for being under the age threshold, there often is no proper follow-up, and the reported minor can simply continue to use the service without any type of check.