Palantir

There is a (conspiracy) theory that Meta lobbies this shit in order to avoid having to verify the users' age and not being culpable in case a minor uses their service.

THiel's palinitir, he has been in the news ALOT lately talking about surveillance with his palinitir AI, plus its already being used by LEO. normally you never hear about THIEL that much in the news, because hes pretty "news adverse" person, if hes doing this, hes desperate.

even his boy-toy that get defenestrated in 2024 in florida, barely made the news

Thiel and the Heritage Foundation

Which entity/organisation/individual/company are they getting the ideas from?

The mainstream media.

Yup, the REAL goal here is to get an ID associated with an IP address to remove your anonymity from the web.

This is different than the legislation being pushed in CA then, sorry it's hard to keep up with the global enshittification of everything

Respectfully I disagree. What I'm describing here is a checkmark. It's a flag that gets turned on presumably by a parent and turned off presumably when the kid comes of age or gets their own computer or whatever. There is no date attached. There's no personally identifiable information that your operating system is collecting and distributeing without your knowledge. At worst it'd allow people to be sorted into above and below certain ages, that's it.

I get that what's being proposed does not require verification (for now, way things are going I don't necessarily expect that to stick). But even if your assuming good intent on the part of these law makers and corporations I still believe entering a date is too much of an invasion of privacy. If this is something we have to do (which I don't believe it is but idiots seem to be forcing the issue) then it should be done with the least amout of data possible. That means a yea or nay on a binary checkbox.