[Bratmon]

I think you're 180° backwards on that.

How many alternative platforms are there really going to be that can afford to develope and operate the legally-mandated age-detection ML-models?

Especially after the bureaucrats see that the law isn't working and start looking for scapegoats without massive lawyer teams to make an example of

[samdoesnothing]

Why would they do that? There are plenty of platforms that simply won't care, and there's stuff like Mastodon et al.

[Bratmon]

The law tends to be pretty good at caring about you when you don't care about it.