Governments are using under-16 social media bans as a pretext to roll out mandatory digital ID for everybody, warns human rights campaigner Reggie Littlejohn.

Governments are using under-16 social media bans as a pretext to roll out mandatory digital ID for everybody, warns human rights campaigner Reggie Littlejohn.

Despite the framing of age verification infrastructure as an innocent child protection measure, in practice the system… pic.twitter.com/Pzwkh8B1m3

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