The shifted to Russia because the USA was not as bigoted, racist, misogynistic as the USA ....and many of them are now on the front line,

And yet their crime rate is lower, the education system is better, the healthcare system it better, they don't have school shootings, the people are more relaxed.

Plenty of you tube videos of Americans who shifted and will never go back to the USA hellhole.

Name one law that is perfect... I'll wait.

Does any law work then ?
The USA has the largest adult population in the world behind bars
1% of its adult population, another 3-4 % on probation or other legal monitoring.

Shooting kids is the Number 1 reason kids die in the USA.... do those laws work ?
The murder rate etc is so much higher in the USA than other 1st world countries it's not funny.
What's the difference.... gun control laws, mental healthcare, social safety nets, universal healthcare, good education, etc etc etc all things the USA has given up on or never had in the first place.
Its been 200 years, how much more proof do you need you have it WRONG ?

They have Oligarchs instead.

Mass surveillance is already the norm.
You allowed it to get free stuff on the internet, YOU became the product.
Even the 3 letter spaghetti agencies are buying data on the open market

"Perceived" , its 100% real.
Think of all the dumb stuff you did as a kid.... now think about how, if it was all recorded and never went away, it stuck with you for life..... how F'd up would YOUR life be now ?

The world already look at the USA as being insane....school shootings..... to the USA this is so normal no one will or wants to do anything about it except "Thoughts and Prayers", meanwhile guns are the number 1 killer of kids in the USA.
That is so F'd up
So they are learning right from primary school fear, PTSD, paranoia, hate, bigotry, racism, etc etc and then you want to cause even MORE mental health issues ?
Zuc etc KNOW their service is addictive, it's designed to be. They are no different from Tobacco sellers who denied it all for decades, make up fake research papers, etc etc etc.

How about getting rid of social media....you will keep far more privacy that way. Get rid of internet tracking systems, cookies, tracking pixels, browser fingerprinting, etc etc etc. THAT there is privacy, but you face it away for "free" product without realising YOU were the product.

Complete BS and paranoia.
They KNOW their product is addictive, especially to kids whose brains are still developing. Giving them Dopamine hit triggers the pleasure centres of the brain, effectively making them drug addicts , supplied by Social media.

The last think they want is kids without social media, and reaching an age where they have been taught critical thinking, how social and other media works, how sales pitches work, different kinds of addictions, bullying, blackmail, sexual extortion, No means NO, etc etc etc. They will be taught the mental health benefits of face to face social interaction
Social media already knows who you are, they probably know more about you than your family.
They buy and sell information about you from all sources, cellphone tracking, credit card purchases , services you have (internet, power, gas, phone, Netflix etc
Kids have exactly ONE chance to grow up into healthy adults, ones who will have productive lives. If THEY fail, you old age is going to be horrific , poverty, ill health, no services etc etc.

I am 100% selfish, I want ever kid born today to be working so that my retirement is as good as it can be.

Assuming it's remotely true (and there's good reason for thinking it isn't), it still means the FBI director was negligent in their choice of personal email provider, that the email provider had incompetent security, and that the government's failure to either have an Internet Czar (the post exists) or to enforce high standards on Internet services are a threat to the security of the nation (since we already know malware can cross airgaps through negligence, the DoD has been hit that way a few times). The FBI director could have copied unknown quantities of malware onto government machines through lax standards, any of which could have delivered classified information over the Internet (we know this because it has also happened to the DoD).

In short, the existence of the hack is a minor concern relative to every single implication that hack has.

There are also risks in not doing anything, and currently these vastly out weight peoples ability to watch porn anonymously.

BS....make your tinfoil hat a little larger.
They are anti anything that could reduce engagement which is why they deliberately use addictive methods to keep people coming back.

No, the activity used by social media needs to be regulated. They are deliberately using this to get kids hooked.
This is especially harmful while kids brains are developing.

Addiction is neurological, not chemical. Addiction is the consequence of the rewards centre of the brain becoming dependent on stimulation and that can be from anything.

Do try to make an effort.

Doesn't have to be a credit card. A class III user digital certificate requires a verification firm be certain of a person's identity through multiple proofs. If an age verification service issued such a certificate, but anonymised the name the certificate was issued to to the user's selected screen name, you now have a digital ID that proves your age and optionally can be used for encryption purposes to ensure your account is only reachable from devices you authorise.

Well the parent is probably helping sue Zuc, and while they are at it them and other parents of kids are pushing to get age verification and other ways to limit the harm that comes to their kids.
Those parents are also products of a shitty US education system where religious nutters prevent things like sex education, which amusingly has better results than purity culture and produces far fewer pedophiles (which churches seem to excel at).
But don't worry, the world is rapidly shifting away from the USA, and they have laws/rules/etc, but being in other countries Zuc et al will just stay the hell out of ...right
and you in the USA can have as much "freedom" as you like while your whole society collapses.
What should anyone expect from a country that has a peso for a president and that country works to protect him....