TLDR; it’s because of Meta.
The whole situation has planned years ago, and I just found myself so badly after reading this research.
With websites, operating systems, app store/ google play, they’re all behind of this (because they’re writing legislation and force Apple/ Google to follow suits), so that they don’t face any illegal consequences.
I’m not really good at English (it’s not my native lang). But you can find yourself more on Reddit. I wanna know what do you think about it.
Title is a little confusing. Meta is who’s behind it, right, and the Reddit post lays out the paper trail?
Yeah i changed the title a little bit (copied from a Reddit post)
Yep, it has planned for years, as far as i know.
This is not surprising in the least. Fuckerburg is vile.
Forgive my ignorance. What does Meta gain from spreading age verification?
Meta itself wasn’t directly voting for age verification. They started lobbying for age verification on the OS level as soon as the whole topic came up.
I would argue that they did it, because the OS now needs to handle all sensitive and technical stuff for verification and Meta gets a new verified tracking point (the age) sent from the OS to the platform.
It was also a surprise to me at first. I figured someone more focused on social control would be behind it, a Palantir type. But Meta will take any opportunity for more Data About You. I’m sure they’ll be offering an age verification tool once states move towards implementing it, one that conveniently scrapes whatever they want to snag.