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It's already happening. California passed a law to require OS vendors and online services to support this functionality last month.
One state in the US but, fair enough. Though a lot of the wording for this seems account based, instead of an OS baked “kid mode”, which again just seems like a variation of parental control which already exists. The point is this problem already has a solution not being utilised by the majority of the world’s internet user base. This won’t fix parents just buying a device to palm off to their kids, because if setting up parental controls is beyond them, setting up an account for them properly likely will be too.
Sure, but this limits companies liability if they make a good faith effort to comply; idiot parents being idiots and not setting up a kid's account are no longer their problem, legally speaking, if they follow this law and respect age signals.