The only reason to push age verification is either to be able to advertise more and increase profits, or to normalize surveillance of citizens. All the gullible people backing this are enabling the worst of our society.
Your inability to think of any possible benefits to age verification shows that you’re more emotional than rational about the subject.
I’m not saying that the potential benefits outweigh the detriments, but they do exist.
Like what? Have the perpetrators in epstein files been brought to justice? THere are different ways to tackle: for example explicitly fining OpenAI, Google, Meta etc. and not individuals and people who need E2E encryption, free OS and free speeech. Sounds like you would rather live in a dictatorial authoritarian police state instead of thinking for everyone. And take care of your own children. They are not my problem. GTFO
There's a good chance they've thought of the possible benefits and determined that the benefits are so small relative to the negative side effects that they round to 0.
I can think of plenty of hypothetical benefits. But it's not worth it; the cure is worse than the disease.
There’s no benefit that a vchip style header on websites that browsers can use to set age limits locally isn’t the better option for.
To understand this push, got to follow the incentives[0].