> is also lobbying in secrecy for requiring all of us to scan our ID and face in order to use our phones and computers.

You’re conflating different things. The OS-level age setting proposals are not the same as scanning IDs and faces.

I’m anti age check legislation, too, but the misinformation is getting so bad that it’s starting to weaken the counter-arguments.

> Their stated reason? Child safety.

> Their actual reason? You can figure that out.

We’re commenting under an article about one $375M lawsuit over child safety and many more on the way. They are obviously being pressured for child safety by over zealous prosecutors. This is why they reversed course and removed end-to-end encryption from Instagram because it was brought up as a threat to child safety.

Also your “you can figure that out” implication doesn’t even make sense. The proposal to move age verification to the OS level would give Meta less information about the user, because the OS, not Meta apps, would be responsible for gating age content. I’m not agreeing with the proposal, but it’s easy to see that it would be more privacy-preserving than having to submit your ID to Meta.