In California they require date of birth IIRC but some other state requires an age bracket. From a technical standpoint asking for an age bracket is removed. It requires maintenance and also actions from the user. How will the system know when you become an adult? Should I keep nagging you every year asking if you are now over 18? Give it a date of birth and it’s set and forget.

That said, I don’t like where we are headed with surveillance of citizens and I think it would be a lot better to handle date of birth on the websites you use rather than your whole operating system. It’s Metas responsibility to make sure their users are not underage. It’s not our responsibility.

I would argue the police in America are way too aggressive. People have a right to protest

And when the people with the ability to reinstall an OS have all switched to Linux then the others will follow. I have already switched two laptops from Windows to Linux in my close family and they have had no complaints about it.