The question is -- why they even need to verify ages of users. This is not decided, and my take is that they do not.
It's funny, concomittant all this chest beating about representing open societies, democracies, unlike those creepy evil authoritarian states which we don't like, that the EC seems hell bent on proving we can have a police state _just_ as intrusive if not more than say: Russia. This is not how we were supposed to prove that we are better.
> as intrusive if not more than say: Russia.
Ping me when people are physically tortured by police for facebook posts, because that's what happens there.
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I love how "they" wanting to know your age is a big conspiracy, but zuck &co hiring the best behavioral and addictions scientists to get yours kids into doomscrolling brain rot as soon as possible is a fact of life and we shouldn't do anything about it
The solution is banning dark patterns at big tech companies, not banning privacy.