The deal is that everyone shouldn't be subjected to invasive identity verification just to not be considered children. Not only is this process generally vaguel

The deal is that everyone shouldn't be subjected to invasive identity verification just to not be considered children. Not only is this process generally vaguely specified in depth, it's a massive (financial) burden for most online platforms. The effect this kind of legislation has, has not been properly thought out. Large corporations' eagerness to implement this legislation should be a MASSIVE red flag alone. How do they benefit from this? I can think of a few ways. Track record also shows that we can't properly do biometric data collection like this. This will end up in massive data leaks, if not people's IDs then at least faces. Congrats, you've given some scammers a full dataset for impersonating people. Not only that, most noninvasive methods for age verification are dumb and ineffective with the AI options available today. Not to mention five or ten years. So now you've got a vague unspecified and relatively nanny-state goal combined with ineffective and invasive methods and malicious compliance with immensely negative side effects. It is not worth it. It's akin to wanting every restaurant that sells beer to card everyone at the entrance and store it in a database. Do we perhaps also want lists of minorities to better "protect" them? "Oh, you bought lava cake? That's children's favourite, please show us your ID to see that you're not a child or we'll take the cake away."