I see a lot of 'what about the children' (whataboutism). And I look at various laws in the Western countries, and there is a consensus-ish that under majority age can still be treated as an adult.
Why does this matter? Why aren't we asking the 17, 16, 15, 14 year olds and down about their situations instead, including opening up the vote to them?
The big problem with all these 'butwhataboutthechildren' laws, is they are by definition, disenfranchised, but they are also subject to the whims of the voters.
Now people will naturally say 'something something prefrontal cortex'. Even the UNCRC 2019a says that. However, we're not running fMRI on children and adults as a permission to vote - its just a simple age gate. And I would argue, that another commentor's parent who thinks Pokemon were demon names probably wouldn't pass that either.
But we end up with garbage laws, and only exist to make those who can vote feel good, while doing damage to those who can't vote.
And as an aside, if companies are doing predatory and illegal things, then the companies should be punished appropriately.
I'm not sure that's the consensus definition of whataboutism, despite it containing the key phrase. Whataboutism is generally of the form "Let's stop talking about X because Y is more important", which become a simple "What about Y?" "What about the children?" is generally used to support restrictions and might be used as a counterargument against things like the general availabilty of youtube but it's not usually used as an attempt to move away from the argument in question entirely.
I agree that we're wildly inconsistent about when children are treated as children, when they're treated as adults and when they become adults (16? 18? 21? when their brain development actually finishes somewhere between 20 and 30?). And not only do we end up with garbage laws but we also end up w garbage exceptions like in juvenile criminal law. We acknowledge that young offenders can't be treated the same as adult offenders because our legal system takes into account intent and the offender's ability to reason and know right from wrong, but then we charge children as adults when we're particularly grossed out by the crime or the prosecutor wants to appear tough.