Age Gating is very often the "foot in the door" towards the goal of total prohibition. This is a tried and true strategy for normalizing banning things that wer

Age Gating is very often the "foot in the door" towards the goal of total prohibition. This is a tried and true strategy for normalizing banning things that were not previously banned: Initially get the public to accept it "for the children." Once you have the technical infra in place to ban XYZ for some users, you are 99% of the way (and one stroke of the pen) towards effectively banning it outright.