Thanks, Drew! I had fun picking the gifs.

Instead of doubling down on age restriction enforcement, governments must focus on accountability and incentives to make online services safer for everyone.

Social media bans are easy to explain and politically attractive. Implementing them, however, is far more difficult and controversial. Trying to keep children and teens off online services they want to be on is not an effective way to improve their safety.

🚔 🗳️ Not all countries are pursuing restrictions solely for online safety. In a notable minority of cases, politics and national security concerns are also driving action.

⚙️ ⚖️ 🗣 Technical limitations, legal restrictions, and social values are influencing decisions to reject complete bans in favor of safety design and education.

🛡️ 🔐 A closer look at policy developments shows a global preference for safety-by-design requirements over full bans.

📊 🗺 More than 60 countries are formally exploring social media age restrictions, but only seven countries have actually implemented bans to date.

I've been giving up some sleep to pursue a passion project tracking social media age restrictions around the world. Here's what I found and what it means. 🌐 😴

Is it weird being happy as a White Sox fan?

if this is the actual argument, it's just frivolous. X not present or operating in europe? 😆 i also want to know - and think a democratic congress should inquire - how this particular intervention came about. 🤔

Sorry, ID or silence. Unless you're cool with scanning your face. You know, to protect the kids.

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Oh that's a really interesting example! Definitely see the parallels.

Ah, thank you, James! Appreciate you doing that and double checking everything.