I mean, Facebook already requires ID in many cases. https://www.facebook.com/help/159096464162185/

You’re required to prove your age in a bunch of real life scenarios too, like buying alcohol, tobacco, or a firearm.

It is a privacy issue, but the question is on the balance is the privacy concern worse than the harms being done by youth on social media?

Given that there are literally hundreds of university studies showing how bad this shit is for kids, and leaked internal documents from the social media companies themselves, I think it’s the better choice at the moment.

The same way Australia is doing it, a big fine for companies that don’t comply and add an age verification process to sites.

Will it work 100%? No

Will it work enough? Probably

It’s only not happening because companies aren’t going to do it on their own, the government needs to force it to happen, and the people need to force the government.

I automate business processes across multiple industries (not using AI currently)

My retirement fund looks crap, I’m worried about all of this too but it’s still a terrible idea to try to retain a job when it’s no longer necessary. Just tax the company a little bit less than they saved, and pay people to go enjoy their lives.

You won’t even notice when it’s done right. We’re still in early days at the moment where you can actually tell.

You have fun checking the fine print on every future game just to make sure they haven’t used it.

While we’re at it, we should also go after all the car companies for putting so many horse stables out of business. IBM for putting computers (this was a job title for humans before it was done by machine) out of jobs.

and a million other situations where technology has replaced a particular type of worker

You didn’t review your order before submitting, the fact that the customizations were missing was clearly visible before you agreed to purchase.

From a Customer Service perspective, they probably should have refunded(or remade) from the start, but you are not in the right here. You threatening legal action just makes you an ass.

That’s not a scam, that’s just a stupid computer system.

Scams are intentional.

He’s quite a well known pollster. Up until recently he was responsible for Five Thirty Eight, but it got sold and he left.

He got the 2016 election wrong (71 Hilary, 28 trump) He got the 2020 election right (89 Biden, 10 Trump)

Right and wrong are the incorrect terms here, but you get what I mean.

Everyone should get off X, I stopped using it the moment that Muskrat bought it. It wasn’t great before, but it’s turned into an absolute dumpster fire now.