It’s not that I don’t care about online child safety. It’s the opposite.

I deeply care about online safety for children, but I’m not for granting more power, control, censorship, and surveillance to entities with a history of abuse in the name of preventing harm. True protection for children includes shielding them from overreaching governments. Governments are the biggest abusers.

Online child safety begins at home. Most parents are better equipped to protect their kids than governments are. Empowering families with safety tools, education, and awareness for both parents and youth is the key.

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I agree completely with you. The faith, desperate faith, being placed in govt on issues that govt has no history or capacity to handle is mind boggling.

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The online age verification has nothing to do with child safety. It's just the first step in getting everyone to verify their ID online. They con people into thinking that this is an acceptable protection mechanism, and then they go to the next level.

And besides, governments, politicians and NGOs are the worst offenders in child trafficking. Just ask Jeffrey Epstien's mate in the White House.

Protocols should allow users to decide who they want to trust, not a platform. Every child will need to learn about cybersecurity at some point.