To minimize the impact of harms like Sextortion Grooming Unwelcome Sexual Advances, change the design of Messaging.

Adults Can't Message Kids

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Definition: Facilitate a sense of safety for parents + kids by only allowing prior connections to initiate conversations with them.

Kind of Intervention:

Gatekeeping

Reversible:

Challenging to Rollout

Suitability:

Contextual

Technical Difficulty:

Very Hard

Legislative Target:

Yes

Requires identity verification, exceptionally fraught, and probably not worth the downsides. Might be worthwhile in applications where ID verification is already present, and kids are expected to be a large part of a platform's ecosystem.

Is something missing, or could it be better?