Meta has recently been successfully sued for harming children. They are naturally pursuing the easiest path to remove themselves from liability. If you don't trust an age signal that a user chooses on their own at during os setup that can legally only be used for age verification purposes, then you're certainly not going to trust whatever age verification method Facebook will use as an alternative.
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Meta is behind this.
Meta has recently been successfully sued for harming children. They are naturally pursuing the easiest path to remove themselves from liability. If you don't trust an age signal that a user chooses on their own at during os setup that can legally only be used for age verification purposes, then you're certainly not going to trust whatever age verification method Facebook will use as an alternative.
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this was posted last month
https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1rshc1f/i_traced_2_b...
and discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47362528
Ah! Sorry, I misunderstood, I thought the above comment was saying Meta was behind the open source exemption