How that's happening on Substack is telling. As you say, it's not even coming under the ban and how likely is someone under 16 even be going to be paying for a subscription on there?

I think they know that a lot of adults are just going to stop using anything that demands ID and we grew up in a world that didn't even have internet so know it isn't too big a deal to be shut out of it. So I figured that targeting children and the younger generations is the easiest way to move into a future where everyone has biometric IDs.

Apparently 27th of this month brings in the next round with age verification needed for search engines. So the noose tightens.