I mean, yeah, it was never designed to protect children. It’s designed to increase the ease of surveillance of adults. Otherwise, the corporations would have been fighting against it. They don’t make profit from protecting children, but they do from the excuse to get truly unique identifiers for people so they can track them and integrate and/or sell the more detailed data for each user.

And so they double down… These regulations won’t stop until the open internet has been reduced to toddler content only, and all users, regardless of age, being required to compromise on their psuedonymity; in order to get some use out of it. Because surely an iPad kid playing a PEGI 18 game (“Call Of Duty”) should be able to expect an age-appropriate experience…

I suppose this is just a statement that is being put out so more broader and privacy invasive measures can be put in place.

Oh so me, a 43 year old man being forced to provide ID so I can use discord and access 18+ games on Steam to protect kids online, hasn’t protected kids online?

To the shock and surprise of abso-fucking-lutely nobody who has been paying attention.