[JoshTriplett]

>> I am arguing for not always helping your opponent make their bad idea better

> I am not sure what you mean by that.

By "opponent" here I mean a politician who is arguing for an age+identity verification system. Telling them "actually you can do that without checking identity" is making their argument better. (There was a time I thought that it might help because then you can see who goes mask off and actually clearly wants identity verification for its own sake, but in general politicians never get pinned down and forced to answer hard questions about their positions like that anymore.) "That's a bad idea, age and identity verification are both bad" is better.

[palata]

The thing is, the EU age verification initiative does explicitly talk about privacy. The first paragraph here mentions it: https://ageverification.dev/.

But most comments explicitly criticise the EU, saying it is authoritarian and has an agenda. What then? Did they all keep the mask for too long and ended up with an actually privacy-preserving technical solution on their website "by mistake"?