Even if the number is set as hidden in settings?

Poe’s law. You should have used tone indicators…

It’s more about experience than age. If you prevent 13 year olds from gaining online experience, they’ll have the same level of inexperience when you expose them to the internet at 16.

The point is that the internet shouldn’t be censored though, we shouldn’t be giving corporations or governments the keys to censor the internet based on any protected characteristics (one of which is age), even if it’s done in a ‘private’ manner. What comes next? Sexuality/gender verification? You can only view porn if you’re the opposite gender? Race verification?

Also they’ll deny trans kids puberty blockers which are proven to be safe and reversible, and the alternative creates harm.

And they’ll censor the internet for ‘children’ (a 17 year old is not a child) to prevent them finding community, support or education outside their IRL religious and harmful bubbles.

It was never about actually protecting children

This is just more child abuse disguised as “parental rights”. It becomes clear how harmful this is when you realise that not all parents have their childrens best interests at heart (even if they think they do and sincerely mean well) and allowing parents to censor the information children have available to them allows them to censor information that the children learn only too late to prevent harm.

I wonder if all the sane Americans did a mass exodus to Canada, Europe, UK, Australia etc, what effect that would have

Judaism is distasteful?

Or is it the Danes?