Fellow software engineers, what are we doing here? Why are we letting the EU / UK define the future of software?

1. The UK and EU are rather large markets that they don’t want to miss out on.

2. There are software engineers in the UK and EU.

3. This specific implementation by Apple is not actually required by any UK or EU law, to my knowledge.

4. This specifically is or will be required by the laws of some US states and other countries.

Maybe carefully read TFA - the age verification came from a Californian law