I’m opposed to both, but I’m not sure that’s even relevant. Compared to a bored store clerk eyeballing your ID in person, digital, cryptographically enforced,

I’m opposed to both, but I’m not sure that’s even relevant. Compared to a bored store clerk eyeballing your ID in person, digital, cryptographically enforced, centralized state identity verification on the internet is a powerful new tool for state censorship and control. The same “save the children” imperative could have been achieved by requiring that porn sites set a header designating themselves as porn, and letting the private market voluntarily add support to their parental controls for filtering that content. Nothing about this problem requires abrogating both privacy rights and parental responsibility.