I mean, yeah, it was never designed to protect children. It’s designed to increase the ease of surveillance of adults. Otherwise, the corporations would have been fighting against it. They don’t make profit from protecting children, but they do from the excuse to get truly unique identifiers for people so they can track them and integrate and/or sell the more detailed data for each user.

Oh so me, a 43 year old man being forced to provide ID so I can use discord and access 18+ games on Steam to protect kids online, hasn’t protected kids online?