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> If they sign up a child, they get fined. Everyone is then incentivized to come up with solutions.

This already is the threat, and all the solutions social media comes up with are eerily “Age Verification” shaped. They are all going to be shitty.

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> They are all going to be shitty

But constrained to those using the platforms. My issue with these broader measures is even if I don't use social media, I'm still caught up in the dragnet.

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Because your "solution" creates massive privacy violations unless age verification and age assurance are banned, and result in even larger fines.
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Did you actually read the post that you’re replying to?
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Yes. It goes off into the same on-device wilderness the lawmakers have wandered into. It also fails Mozilla’s objection list to the status quo proposal.
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