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roundabout-host | on: European "age verification" "app" forcing everyone to use Android or iOS
Maybe it depends on how you frame it.

> Social media is destroying children's brains! Do you want access to be delayed until a certain age?

> Do you want children under a certain age to be banned from social media, which means that you will now have to give your ID, only with Android or iOS?

anal_reactor | parent
> only with Android or iOS

99% of people understand this as "you need a smartphone" which is not a problem in 2026, even for the elderly.

roundabout-host | root | parent
"only if you choose to share your personal data with either Google or Apple"?
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