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This is going to be used by everyone from pedophiles to advertising agencies to target children at unimaginable levels. This is legitimately about as big of a mistake as you could possibly make if your intentions were actually to protect children, and the biggest win of all time if you are any form of child predator.
They can already target children through existing means. This doesn't change anything for bad actors.
Pedophiles aren't being blocked from finding kids on Roblox because they don't have an OS confirmation that the person checked a box saying they're roughly a child, and legitimate companies can already do this through the numerous existing ways of determining user demographics.
Targeted advertising is not a problem that is solved by OS level security, it can only be solved through legislation targeting the actual harmful practice. A user spending any amount of time online will always leak enough data to figure out roughly who they are, especially with AI tooling that can do pattern recognition orders of magnitude more effectively than anything that came before.
OS level account setting is by far the simplest and least intrusive method of having some kind of age verification. Parents setup their kids account then the OS transmits the signal to the server. No IDs, no government involvement, no databases.
Labeling children as children and then boxing them off is making them vastly easier targets. You really think pedophiles aren't still going to be reaching kids on Roblox because of this? You really think this will be an infallible system that 100% determines the person using the device at that time is a child? Predators will find ways around this, the children will be easier targets, and the parents will all be even more carless about their children's online activities because they will think exactly like you.
especially when the pedophiles have a firm control on America and 80 million worshippers.