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> "Once the operating system knows your age with verified certainty, it can tell any app to deliver, restrict, or withhold content accordingly."

Instead of "age verification", call it (and everything like it) Epstein law. The government wants the information of who is a kid and who isn't broadcasted to all the apps, safe AND malicious. There's no good reason to let random developers freely collect lists of kids out of those people who choose to try an app. It's Epstein law.

Being able to easily bypass an age gate makes such info unreliable, verification removes the unreliability such that the data can then be used for both good and evil reasons.