Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for privacy. But between setting up the birthdate when creating my children’s local account on their computers, and having to send a copy of their ID to every platform under the sun, I’d easily chose the former.
I’d even agree to a simple protocol (HTTP X-Over-18 / X-Over-21 headers?) to that.
the problem is that it’s not going to stop there. kids will obviously still get porn, and fascists will say “seeeeee!!??! we need even more personal data to protect the kids!!! OS age verification isn’t enough!!!”
steps in the wrong direction are exactly that, and exactly what this OS bullshit is. everyone having to pay the price for parents who can’t be assed to raise their own kids
edit: i need to add–it’s not actually about the kids. it never was. it’s about collecting every 1 and every 0 that exists about you, for profit, but also for surveillance. every dissenting comment, post, photo, etc will be linked to a unique human being via dozens (or hundreds. thousands?) of data points. before you say “no way,” remember the ridiculous percentage of 1/6 insurrectionists they rooted out, based on social media posts. and that was before AI blew up
To be fair, that was mostly because those people are absolute fucking morons who posted videos of themselves and their buddies involved in, or actually committing, crimes.