Not sure this is what social media wants. They want to maximize shareholder value. The teen segment is crazy valuable since a lot of them are able to convince parents to buy them all kinds of shit. Without this segment, advertisers will turn to other platforms and thus remove lots of ad money from these platforms
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Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Doesn’t this just sound like what they want from all this anyhow? A reason to implement ‘age verification’
djmikeale@feddit.dk 2 weeks ago
t3rmit3@beehaw.org 2 weeks ago
I don’t think that’s what the parents or kids want, but I do think that’ll be what happens, yes.
Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I guess I should clarify I’m referring to the corporate overlord illuminati ‘they’, not the victims of the aforementioned conspitators ‘they’