By the way our corporate dictatorships are speed-running totalitarianism, I'd say before the decade is done. I will choose to be an antifa terrorist before I accept fascism.

This is actually the least invasive form of age verification for Apple users. Apple already has a credit card on file for something like 90+% of the user base.

The alternative the political whore class are promoting is apps individually verifying with a multitude of data brokers "ID providers".

This is the illusion of choice under the surveillance capitalism of corporate dictatorships. Rather than regulate capitalists, the gov colludes with them to exploit and enslave consumers.