Was there a specific reason you wanted to make this a right vs left argument and then posit a nothing sandwich?
This bill will most likely garner attention but will never pass until users decide they would be ok with sharing their physical ID to login which I believe most if not all people would be happy with avoiding at all costs.
There is no way they actually believe this is the correct solution for the problem they're proposing to solve. It sounds more like a solution for something they stand to gain.
The cognitive dissonance required to see a group of people doing a stupid and bad thing and having your first response be "this is the kind of thing the opposite group of people would usually do," it's really amazing.
"That boy doing X reminds me that I hate it when girls do X!"
"That adult doing Y reminds me that I hate it when children do Y!"
"That Buddhist doing Z reminds me that I hate it when Hindus do Z!"
You misread me. I don't think it is necessarily a bad thing at all. I'm just pointing out that those on the left have a reason for being ambivalent about it inasmuch as, in addition to its laudable goals, it also has the side effect of making it more difficult for them to influence minors.
Half of those examples seem just as likely to be motivated by conservative as liberal concerns. I struggle to think of left-wingers demanding that cars should be kept free of dirt or attempting to fine people for swearing in public. Then again listicles are more about stimulating clicks and shallow conversations than serious analysis of an issue.
If adults wanted me not to use some of the greatest resources available to humans in order to "protect" me it would cause me to constantly be wasting time I could be using to do something fun or useful on circumventing idiotic protections.
I don't like having my time wasted and I would certainly never vote for the people who want to waste my time. And that's the best case scenario, some people wouldn't be able to circumvent the ban and they'd be stuck atrophying.
The idea that twitter/facebook/4chan/instagram/discord etc aren't essential to existing in a world that's changing as fast as ours is laughable. In the last 2 weeks I've gone from novice to expert in using stable diffusion to create animations purely off discussions on social media, this information doesn't exist anywhere else in a field that's being upended every few weeks by new developments. That's not something that's going to change going into the future, the rate of change is increasing and we need to PREPARE our youth for that, not deny them the only way to stay relevant.
