Source: The Next Web
Norway is shifting the enforcement burden from parents and regulators to platforms themselves—requiring them to verify age at signup rather than relying on user-reported birthdays. This legislative model directly challenges the Silicon Valley playbook of self-regulation and user responsibility, creating a template that EU regulators and other democracies will likely test in their own markets. The move imposes a real cost to platforms' business model: aggressive user acquisition from young cohorts becomes legally impossible, forcing platforms to reckon with how dependent their engagement metrics are on underage users.