Comment by WarmWash

Meta reads the writing on the wall, and is committing to the position that age verification is inevitable and will come down eventually no matter what.

Meta, understanding that it will likely be the poster child for social media, knows that the laws will be likely written to make Meta enforce age verification on their platforms. This is expensive and ridden with liability traps, lawsuits, and government investigations.

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To stem the tide of this before it hits their shores, Meta is actively pushing hard to get age verification legislation in place on the OS level.

This would put Google, Apple, and Microsoft in the hot seat, and Meta can carry on while blaming them when kids get through cracks.

Meta is simply playing a strategy game to make everything shittier for everyone else (everyone uses an OS) in order to protect themselves (not everyone uses Meta).