> Your compromise sounds far worse to me than all the bots, extremists, vulgarity or whatever other problem it's supposed to solve. Yeah, but in all likelihood

> Your compromise sounds far worse to me than all the bots, extremists, vulgarity or whatever other problem it's supposed to solve. Yeah, but in all likelihood _that isn't one of the options_. The moral panics and "think of the children" and general ignorance around these things is going to drive action at some point. The options are "implement the least bad thing we can" or "wait for legislators and regulators to dictate how it will work". I'd rather see Apple (who already has some semblance of ability to verify your age as you usually have payment methods and things tied to your account) come in and implement some protocol involving a bunch of cryptography I can't even begin to understand that preserves privacy and anonymity, have that gain a foothold, and have eventual regulations either seen as unnecessary or effectively having to support this sort of workflow. The alternative I see is at some point we're going to get a regulation that involves everyone having to send a photo of themselves holding up their driver's license all over the place in order to access half the internet.