What if I don't want my computer asking for my age and providing an API to give up that information? Why is the government mandating software devs to add bloat and privacy violating features to operating systems?

The slippery slope isn't a fallacy in this case as we've seen the pot slowly come to a boil after 9/11 with various laws like the Patriot Act, FISA, etc. and classified programs within the NSA (and I'm sure all the three letters) which violate the rights of Americans everyday. Now it's a coordinated effort across multiple western countries all of a sudden to introduce laws around verifying your age. It's clear where this is going.

Meanwhile Epstein and the pedo elite are untouchable and with no surveillance of course.

Why are we bringing up our pet issues in threads that have nothing to do with them

Signal your virtue in the threads that are dedicated to those issues please, we don’t need to bring this up in a thread dedicated to some dumb law