If of wasn't Metas involvement, I was thinking it would be the first stab at a social credit system.
Is definitely a ploy to identify us all and certainly not to protect children.
this post was submitted on 14 Mar 2026
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I absolutely believe this
"schizo internet theory." i'm not surprised this was posted on Twitter this guy is far gone
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It is the third option. For a schizo conspiracy it makes a lot of sense.
~~feds~~ corpos
Don’t know if it’s so much an issue with detecting what’s what. I think this just wildely opens the door to knowing who people are and being able to easily take even more data. All the while opening new opportunities to sell the tech to institutions that pull the data they want.
It’s not longer capitalism it’s griftalism
My theory is its war with China. The US has likely alerted other country that China will do to them that the US does to Iran, using social media to guide elections.
The main reason for all the censorship and end of privacy is because the world is heading to a major war and free flow of information goes against the interests of those behind the war. See the case with Gaza
Not that the other reasons don't exist, but advertisers are not the main one
Couldn't they just implement id verification without a requirement from the law? That way they wouldn't need to wait for the governments to one by one pass laws
Going with the post's idea for a moment, by making it law, the companies prevent any new social media from popping up and not requiring ID verification and stealing away all their users. "They can't say no, it's out of their hands because it's law".
Not to mention, if everyone has to do it in one country because of the law, it makes it easier to push it in other places because now it's a collective movement.
So what every website will have to have age verification? Or else if your website lacks such controls you go to jail?
Eventually every USER will have to be identified on the Internet, to prove their age, so that we know they aren't children, because we want to protect children.
So I have to allow everything I say or do on the Internet to be exposed to the entire world, because parents can't be bothered to supervise their children's Internet use.