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Hopefully there's enough backlash here to encourage people not to try anything like this. Sadly, I think it's very possible to legislature enforcing something along these lines in the next 5 years. Social media is culpable for a lot of the social pressure teens are under, and the obvious (albeit flawed) solution is to stop minors from using it. If we ever do reach such a dystopian reality, I hope teens can educate themselves on chat protocols like Matrix that can't be forced to add something like this.

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