It likely gives them a higher degree of control over their user base
Fixbeat@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Why does Microsoft care about this?
cmbabul@lemmy.world 5 months ago
thenexusofprivacy@lemmy.sdf.org 5 months ago
They get to position themselves as looking out for the children.
DrDeadCrash@programming.dev 5 months ago
Politics…
Supermariofan67@programming.dev 5 months ago
They have the money and resources to comply with it, but any small competitor won’t. So Microsoft will gain even more dominance in the market
deweydecibel@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I also wouldn’t put it past them to be thinking of ways they can take advantage of identity verification schemes. The idea of everyone needing to have Microsoft Authenticator installed to verify their age for any site they want to visit must make them salivate. Makes me wanna puke that they’d get away with it, too.
thenexusofprivacy@lemmy.sdf.org 5 months ago
Yep. There’s money to be made here!
thenexusofprivacy@lemmy.sdf.org 5 months ago
Great point. Mike Masnick has said that he wouldn’t be surprised if Meta also comes out in support, for similar reasons.