Keeping kids off social media is good -- I signed up for Gamefaqs with a pormanteau of my first and last name and some of the evil people I met follow me across the net to this day.
But forcing children to present more ID to use the net than in the PRC is not a step in a positive direction.
The real solution is to put the computer in a semi public place, but that works less well than it did back before gift cards, burner phones, and ubiquitous wifi -- too many times I've had to tell a kid something to the effect of "You shouldn't be in this application, I am not going to call the school since I've met your teachers and they'll just smell blood in the metaphorical water and victimize you, but dear lord treasure this time rather than try to meet weird 30 something year olds on the net who might literally murder you".
But forcing children to present more ID to use the net than in the PRC is not a step in a positive direction.
The real solution is to put the computer in a semi public place, but that works less well than it did back before gift cards, burner phones, and ubiquitous wifi -- too many times I've had to tell a kid something to the effect of "You shouldn't be in this application, I am not going to call the school since I've met your teachers and they'll just smell blood in the metaphorical water and victimize you, but dear lord treasure this time rather than try to meet weird 30 something year olds on the net who might literally murder you".