I do not think it is coincidence. I think it is TPTB Orwellian move to regain control of online content and messaging. To monitor and pick off dissidents. To quash resistance movements before they start. A key vulnerability in government control was they can’t predict what does not yet have a record.
Now they hope to. Across the western / Pissreal allied world they are implementing age bans under the guise of protecting the children and control.
If parents are concerned about their kids online engagements then they should parent. Not depend on government nannies.
Despite growing up before all this. I spent a lot of times hiding in my room playing video games cause being around my father was insufferable. This would cause him to get angry that I never went outside. I had no one to play with and on top of that my family put a fear in me of poisonous snakes and mountain lions*.
“When I was your age I’d just stare them down” okay cool dad. You go do that.n
It always infuriated me that they wouldn’t take me anywhere or give me a reason to go outside then bitch at me for staying inside.
Also not surprising, when my grandparents lived closer they would take me to the park all the time and I loved it. I also played in their mountain lion free yards (that I knew off, but I was a dumbass kid)
*my stupid ass father love telling the story of the mountain lion who tried to stalk my toddler ass playing by the door window and was never seen again.