[sneak]

The requirement to show ID is not to perform age verification to ban children from services.

The requirement to show ID is so that every user (especially adults) online can be real-world identified and located. This allows the state to privately and quietly retaliate for any sort of posts or publications or link-sharing that they don't like.

It's a ban on anonymous publishing, anonymous speech. It's so that they can simply and easily retaliate against publishers that don't have a legal department and media team (i.e. you).

This is a fundamental attack on freedom of expression by adults, by prohibiting anonymous use of the internet. It has precisely zero to do with children.

[throwawayk7h]

my government is implementing a ZKP protocol to solve this problem. So is brazil. (bifold open wallet.)