This actually seems like an attempt to curb all the ID collecting privacy nightmares that are happening lately with poorer implementations.

I’m not convinced it is. If it were, they could make it an opt-in feature for parents rather than a mandatory feature that forces people to lie. While less unreasonable, it still normalizes an un-necessary thing.

If society really wanted to protect children, we could actually start punishing the known, famous child rape perpetrators. But instead, the Catholic Church still gets enormous tax benefits, the Boy Scouts still exist, the Joe Paterno statue was put back in the stadium at the demand of the fans, Prince Adnrew isn’t in jail, and Donald Trump is President. And people will read this comment and be more triggered that I didn’t name some other prominent pedophile that still walks free. This sort of legislation in the name of protecting children is just a giant, society-wide virtue-signaling delusion.