some of y'all are being real fucking weird about this metaphor and i can't say i super appreciate it

apparently i need to spell this out: both these things are about control, and "won't someone please think about the children" is primarily just pretext, just like it always is

if they gave a shit about the children they'd legislate the companies profiting from it all, not unilaterally yeeting kids out of society's public platforms

@eniko

They should consider how Facebook/Meta is quite literally the one driving the whole "age verification" mania through a chain of and shady non-profits and even shadier go-betweens.

They absolutely think it will be good for them.

@CliftonR sure. in the choice of being legislated against and having to do something or shunting the responsibility onto governments and individuals, of course they want the latter

plus all of that sweet sweet real ID data