The article below sharply summarizes why all this is a dystopian surveillance setup:

> how, precisely, do you stop a fourteen-year-old from opening Instagram without first checking the age of the forty-year-old?

> You don’t. You can’t. So everyone gets carded. Britain is lifting the system wholesale from Australia, where a computer first scans your face and guesses your age from your cheekbones, then, failing that, surveils you to death, studies your browsing habits and the hours you keep, and then, when the algorithm throws up its hands, simply demands your passport.

https://reclaimthenet.org/starmers-social-media-ban-surveill...