Ffs I am 60, everyone was faking their age when I was 16/17 to get into nightclubs and buy beer.

Why not remove all age restrictions then? I mean, you can get drunk or start smoking as a teen if you really want to. Yet many don't, because is iconvenient.

And I also don't buy this 'kids get cut off' shit at all. You can use Youtube without an account, no problem. You still have easy access to news and websites. You can still network with other people and join, for example, group chats or TS servers. Heck, it's like, what? 10 Platforms that are (semi-)banned? Half of the people on earth grew up without social media at all, yet some people talk about this like it's the air they breath.

That very fact just reinforces my suport for the ban a lot. If you really need social media, just go to the fediverse dammit. It is incidentally not banned and almost guaranteed to be better than the dataharvesting ragebait shitshow with gambling ads that's mainstream social media these days.

That's why the Epstein class bringing identity verification down to the operating system level and most likely down to the hardware level next. The goal is to have any device that you touch instantly know it is you who are using it. Can't cause any uprisings when they know who you are and where you are.

YouTube tried to age verify me and couldn't do it using the card I've been paying them with, so I figured I'd let people know you can beat YouTube's selfie age verification with high resolution videos. I used a 4k video of Evan Edinger and it just accepted that was me, despite being a mediocre phone camera aimed at what should clearly be a screen.

I immediately went to check that I could still watch porn with a minimum of workarounds. I'm not a big porn guy but when they told me no it gave me something to fight.

They’ll need that training soon enough anyway.

Truly shocking.