To be fair to the tech companies, the government has really left them holding the ball on this thing they didn’t ask for. The government did a little bit of age verification testing, found it was occasionally actuate in certain circumstances for a small portion of the population, then said good enough and told the tech companies to figure it out or we’ll fine you millions. The government then goes around taking all the credit for pretending to do something about “protecting” children and will just blame the tech companies when it all goes to shit. At the end of the day, it’s only stopping them from having accounts, they can still watch all the trash on YouTube and tiktok logged out and will be fingerprinted by their device to tune the algorithm.