Hopefully you’ll one day reach your goal of having to send physical mail to sign online petitions.

“In that case, someone other than the pencil ought to do that job, don’t you agree?”

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Good. Social media addiction rates are five to ten times those of gambling, and yet we protect those under 18 from accessing those. There is also a strong correlation between heavy social media use and suicidal ideation.

Just FYI, big tech opposes this. Meta is flooding European digital advertising with “Instagram for teenagers”, posturing that parents can implement parental controls on who teens can communicate with, as if that were the issue we’re trying to fix.

Age verification is fine but it needs a proper e-ID public platform (similar to the ones used in Europe for e-democracy) which can limitedly share whether you pass the age check or not.

The reason for this is that social media has similar addiction rates as gambling, where you you should be asked your age at the door if you do.

Did you pick that up from the Russian state media you share everywhere or from Western conspiracy websites?

Toy Story 5 is on track to earn $1.2B theatrically worldwide compared to $1B for Toy Story 4. Not sure what downward trend you’re talking about, given that movie theatres never fully recovered from the streaming rise + pandemic double whammy.