I am more a fan of no phones in schools for children under 16. Everything outside of school is just parental responsibility.

That way you don’t have to rely on ID/facial scanning collection to enact the ban. There are so many way to get around digital age verification and dangers to social media companies implementing ID databases.

https://proton.me/blog/discord-age-verfication-breach

https://www.wired.com/story/robloxs-ai-powered-age-verification-is-a-complete-mess/