We gotta talk about the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) over in the USA. It's got bipartisan support, along with the President's blessing, so it's probably going to happen in one form or another and inspire other jurisdictions. The law will introduce a "duty of care" to children, so if they something their parents don't like, it's the platform's fault. So that results in services verifying everyone's age to shove the under 18s on a nerfed internet that is so censored, topics teens are really into, like gender, sex and drugs are verboten. It also could be interpreted that end-to-end encryption could be seen as an evasion tool around the platforms knowing what kids are talking about, so that has to end too.
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