> It would absolutely be possible to implement that stuff in a fully privacy-preserving way, with nothing but basic cryptography, and the government could absol

> It would absolutely be possible to implement that stuff in a fully privacy-preserving way, with nothing but basic cryptography, and the government could absolutely enforce that implementation. Yeah, it seems like it would not be as much of a problem if you were able to have assurances that your data isn't being held onto. If I give my ID to a bouncer at a strip club, he isn't able to scan it and put it into a digital file. He just looks at it*, goes "yep this guy is of age", and gives it back. If we ensured a similar data flow for the Internet, then it wouldn't be nearly as much of a privacy issue. *These days I doubt I would even get carded as well. Getting older and all that. IDK how you could implement a similar check for the Internet though.