[purple_ducks]

> no rw to access to UK internet without age+ID

Fantastic. Everything attributable to a public pseudonym privately tied to a real person.

This sounds exactly how it should be.

If somebody tries to subvert the law, they can easily be arrested and tried in a court of law.

[mschuster91]

This is utterly damaging to democracy - a real democracy needs anonymity to survive. Removing anonymity will lead to people limiting for example posting critical opinions of the government or a political party.

The reason is simple: even if you trust the current government to not abuse all the tasty meta-data, who says the next government, led by the party you vocally criticized on the Internet, will look away?

Just look at China, or what Turkey is doing, or even what US border checks asking for your social media logins are doing right now.

[pjc50]

Christ no. Not only is this the end of certain kinds of dissidence and protest, how does it apply to business communications and automated systems? The options are ludicrous - either you have the CEO personally criminally liable for a gazillion hacked routers, or you have an environment where dissidents can be hunted but all sorts of malicious foreign actors hide behind business fronts.