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It could be a move to have parity with TikTok, where they claim it’s for safety reasons. I’ve been seeing advertisements for Instagram touting their child/teen protection features. Seems like they’re really trying to beat the allegations that Instagram is bad for children’s health.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47241817

Protecting kids and Terrorism, always the reason why nobody is allowed to have privacy on the internet.
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It's bad for EVERYONE's health. Try to limit your usage and you'll feel better. I promise you'll feel better.
The sad part is, Instagram is exceptionally damaging to kids for a disjoint set of reasons.
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Protect your kids from whom? Surely not Meta, which is my main concern.
It certainly is unsafe for their AI training corpus. Win / win if they can also lie about protecting children as a motivation.
How these protections are working when I get served literal porn every couple of shorts on Instagram?