Wasn’t the gambling industry behind pushing the whole ‘no kids on social media’ thing. Kicking off I’d verification everywhere and now they still can’t run ads but the internet is worse off. Wild.
It comes from many sources. Governments want age-verification for surveillance, advertisers want it to target people and ensure those people are real, social media companies want it for similar reasons, hackers want it so they have more IDs to steal, and (some) voters want it because they’re idiots
Wasn’t the gambling industry behind pushing the whole ‘no kids on social media’ thing. Kicking off I’d verification everywhere and now they still can’t run ads but the internet is worse off. Wild.
It comes from many sources. Governments want age-verification for surveillance, advertisers want it to target people and ensure those people are real, social media companies want it for similar reasons, hackers want it so they have more IDs to steal, and (some) voters want it because they’re idiots
Here’s an article with sources for my point if Interested https://gigazine.net/gsc_news/en/20251216-australias-social-media-ban-gambling/