[yaur]

COPA already effectively does this, but kids just lie about their age. Making FB and company liable for those cases where parents decide to let their preteens go wild on social media seems insane.

[zo1]

So plan B would be to make the parents liable? Just have Facebook refer suspected cases for police to confirm.

[crooked-v]

That sounds like a great way to make the US' selective enforcement problems even more pernicious.

Child of a rabble-rouser? Arrest that man! Child of a respected judge? Clearly just an honest mistake.

[Mindwipe]

Unfortunately plan B is to ban anonymous access to websites.

[hellojesus]

People will just stop using us based sites.

[Mindwipe]

The UK and most of Western Europe are doing the same thing. Russia and China are no fans of the free internet.

[hellojesus]

True, but it only takes a single country anywhere in the world to keep the internet free. And by keeping the net free, they'll get all the money, so they're is a strong incentive to do so.

In the event there are no countries left there are still options:

1. Hidden services

2. Decentralized

3. Just create a pool mechanism where you contribute your private key for whatever gov Auth system exists, then use a random id from the pool among all sign-ups everytime you sign up for a service.