Outrage against what? That age restrictions haven't been enforced sooner?

I read an article where some children were asked about their social media use. A few made the point that they just felt crap after a scrolling session. I think everyone here knows what it's like to realise you just lost an hour to two of potential productive time to HN. And this is just a text site.

Social media is engineered to steal your attention and feed you junk, divisive information. Why on earth would we allow kids to become addicted to that?

Here in Poland people will start caring when this verification will be anything other that charge your (debit) card some amount.

No one will accept using their official electronic ID with Facebook etc

If that is how they implement it I expect a massive exodus from these platforms.

People stopped trusting tech industry and stopped seeing it as something that helps or good or better then politicians. Majority of its complains about freedom and what not are not really about freedom are self serving bullshit and its actively trying to cause harm. Tech industry is really good at blaming the user while spending millions on making the user do what they are blaming them for.

So, result is that people at best don't care. They see the whole fight as basically assholes vs assholes ... and tech is perceived as bigger assholes.