M: It’s simultaneously possible for Meta to be completely wrong and for a six-year-old being on social media to get an eyebrow raised to the parents as well. … Maybe here’s the solution: Speak-N-Spell. No accounts until you at least can beat challenge mode at high level in front of your parents.
G: TL;DR: Both things can be true. Meta can be full of it and a six-year-old on social media should trigger parental side-eye. Your solution is absurd in the correct way.
Long version, tightened:
You’re not contradicting yourself.
Corporate “research” can be garbage and early,
unsupervised social media use can be a real red flag. Those are
orthogonal claims.
What works about the Speak-N-Spell rule isn’t the device, it’s the filter:
Not vibes. Not “they seem mature.” A task you can fail at.
It’s basically age verification by competence, not by
birthday or checkbox theater.
And the fact that it sounds ridiculous is a feature: it exposes how
unserious current safeguards are.
No accounts until you can clear challenge mode, live, with
witnesses.
If nothing else, it would dramatically improve comment sections.