The point is that 1) someone can claim there is a verification so we protect kids 2) but more importantly, there is a lot of money to be made selling verification solutions and usually these SaaS companies are owned by regulators and their buddies who make the rules about verifications.

Compliance industry has grown from zero to $90B after we cracked the nut everything needs compliance.

Here is a good book about the topic https://www.amazon.com/Compliance-Industrial-Complex-Operati...