There are two things.

1. It shouldn't be META's responsibility in this case. You do not jail a store because they failed to keep the shop-lifters away.

2. On the other hand, if they are spying on any user (even not their users) then they are sure to have the age estimates of their users and thus be able to filter them.

From all the reasons, however, I found the inability to filter users that are underaged to be the least concerning.

Whereas the IMO EU support for genocide of children under 13 in Middle East is not in breach of anything?

Also, banning people from communicating with other people based on their age, isn't that ageism discrimination? What about freedom of speech? What about human rights?

And cooperating with a country led by at least an associate of rapist pedofile human trafficker gang is also not in breach of anything?

good finding.

Nevertheless, I do not think that vetting user information and making that vetted info accessible to companies who are in breach of the law and whose business model is based on extracting as-correct-as-possible user information is a good solution.

I am of course referring to age verification.

And before anyone mentions zero knowledge proofs: I doubt it will turn out that way.

Very good. now do something about THIS:

theguardian.com/technology/202…

US tech firms successfully lobbied EU to keep datacentre emissions secret

Legally questionable confidentiality clause adopted almost word for word from demands of Microsoft and trade groups

^{Ajit Niranjan (The Guardian)}

THEN WHY is EU trying to destroy GDPR - the one law that actually helps keep kids and everyone else's data safe?

We need stronger privacy laws.
We need to attack the business model (these platforms farm kids attention for adrevenue) NOT users.

What we do NOT need is digital ID "age" verification. That's what these platforms want! It gives them free pass to exploit users more. AND that would end platforms like mastodon, while meta happily starts mass surveillance on our kids

The EU should fine Meta (or any other web property) a fine for violating the rules and then pay 1/2 the fine to the person who reported it. This will enlist an army of 12-year-old kids who sign up just to report Meta and collect a fee.

I suspect that Meta would find a way to keep the 12-year-old kids out if this happened.

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Agreed that Meta are exploiting the young and addicting others.
But privacy is a human right so the solution to the problem is not to impose an eradication of privacy for everyone!

Age verification is removal of privacy. No age verification has resisted theft/leaks of data which makes the young and everyone more vulnerable.

Meta continues to hand off user verification to minimize their costs and burdens. California passed a law mandating that Operating Systems, not trillion dollar corporations, need to be the gatekeeper.

Meta needs to take responsibility for their bad service and not let them declare “not my problem, the OS said they were 13”. Lobbying here is clear cut and they’re trying to dodge their duty.

Mehr Geld für den Staat.

Das Geld braucht er auch, da er trotz Rekordeinnahmen ein Defizit fährt und neue Schulden braucht.

Würde doch richtig hart sein, wenn alle Deutschen nicht mehr Rauchen, Alkohol konsumieren und nur noch Fahrrad fahren.

"Was andere Länder längst eingeführt haben, ist in Deutschland ein kontrovers diskutiertes Reizthema."

Der Satz zeigt mal eben doch wieder das wir auch nur das USA von Europa sind:
Was in vielen Ländern als common Sense geht ist bei uns natürlich wieder "ein Einschnitt in unsere Freiheit" oder was auch immer.

In den USA sind das halt die Waffen und Autos und bei uns dann halt Autos und Zucker (unter anderem)

aus dem Artikel zur Abgabe auf gesüßte Softdrinks:

"Was könnte die Abgabe finanziell bringen?

Die Mehreinnahmen werden auf rund 450 Millionen Euro im Jahr geschätzt. Die jährlichen Kosteneinsparungen im System der gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung könnten mittel- und langfristig 20 bis 170 Millionen Euro betragen, weil Erkrankungen vorgebeugt werde, schätzen Experten."