The larger plan is probably to avoid banning social media for under-18s
Or get another source of demographic data and suppress smaller competitors who can't comply with onerous regulation.
I don't see how this regulation is onerous or hard to comply with.
Having age verification in every operating system? I think it is onerous. Imagine you need to update every embedded system because your wise lawmakers made it a crime to run any code that does not include age verification API.
Probably both.
Or get another source of demographic data and suppress smaller competitors who can't comply with onerous regulation.
I don't see how this regulation is onerous or hard to comply with.
Having age verification in every operating system? I think it is onerous. Imagine you need to update every embedded system because your wise lawmakers made it a crime to run any code that does not include age verification API.
Probably both.