This isn't a legal thing, it's Apple being Apple. The law is about platforms that deal in pornography, self harm, etc:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_age_verification_in_the...

The comment that you are replying to is saying that it's not exclusive to Apple and gives a non-Apple example. Your link has zero instances of the string "Apple". What am I missing.

> The law is about platforms that deal in pornography, self harm, etc

So...not exclusive to Apple.