[roblabla]

The government won't limit you - they can't really know what you use those proofs for anyways, that's the zero knowledge part, and supposedly they'll be necessary for social media at some point, so a ZK proof won't necessarily mean porn use. The only thing the govt knows is how many proofs are being downloaded. And you can bet politicians wouldn't do anything to prevent voting-age you from accessing social media - how else are they supposed to get you to vote for them (or hate their opponents).

Now, a scenario I can see happening is, the ZKP-issuing agency may find a single client downloading several orders of magnitude more proofs than the average citizen, find that suspicious, refer them to the police, who'd get a warrant to investigate said person. Then, the police may manage to connect said person with a proof distribution service. Something along those lines.

Again, I'm personally not a huge fan of the whole age gating, but if we're going to go about it, this is the least worse option. Which is really saying something.

[inigyou]

How many proofs will be illegal to download? Will downloading and discarding proofs in an infinite loop be a crime?