[andrekandre]

  > the era of mass public social networks will come to the end.

its just my unsubstantiated guess, but i feel like this is the end-goal of these age-verification laws...

but if that were true, what i don't understand is why don't they just go after the business model itself legal-wise instead of indirectly with age-verification...

[BirAdam]

The owners of the social networks are billionaires with great lawyers and lobbyists on staff. They get politicians to introduce bills pushing the responsibility to the OS instead of the social network.

Of course, I am not sure why anyone trusts the global elite after JE. Telling any system the age of a user could be more harmful to that user than the supposed harm of the software itself.

[weltensturm]

I assume it's because age verification is something the attention slop merchants can work with, and they'd rather lobby for that instead of letting their entire business model be uprooted.

I'm sure "child friendly content" is part of their calculations, and I'm sure they'll try to interpret the rules in a way that maximizes their profit.