Besides this being ineffective for the motivated, it might have a subtle antitrust effect.

As kids find alternative platforms, perhaps they will be vendor locked to them instead of the Meta empire.

I think you're 180° backwards on that.

How many alternative platforms are there really going to be that can afford to develope and operate the legally-mandated age-detection ML-models?

Especially after the bureaucrats see that the law isn't working and start looking for scapegoats without massive lawyer teams to make an example of

Why would they do that? There are plenty of platforms that simply won't care, and there's stuff like Mastodon et al.

The law tends to be pretty good at caring about you when you don't care about it.

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