Comment by intended

I would hesitate with reading this and drawing any conclusions at all.

The methodology appears to be LLM driven, and the contextual framing which the conclusions are couched in, drive conclusions to a specific direction.

It does not clarify between two readings

1) Meta is driving Age verification efforts

2) Meta is being opportunistic with age verification efforts to further its own goals

The larger macro picture is that voters globally are tired of Tech firms and want something done about it.

The second macro trend is the inability of governments to handle/control tech, and are looking for reasons to bring tech to heel.

That’s context results in a sufficiently different degree of culpability and eventual path to resisting privacy reducing regulations.