Comment by dzonga
12 hours ago
I think the author is missing a layer of abstraction.
yeah - once regulators come into play - the private ecosystems take over. discord is already a precursor to this.
the era of mass public social networks will come to the end. next it will be just private networks of individuals. likely the won't interact.
how the dynamics play out - I don't know - but if you study history - you will know what behaviors will happen.
its just my unsubstantiated guess, but i feel like this is the end-goal of these age-verification laws...
but if that were true, what i don't understand is why don't they just go after the business model itself legal-wise instead of indirectly with age-verification...