> the hate [age verification] gets Age verification actually gets almost no hate. Society-wide surveillance gets a lot; age verification just happens to be the

> the hate [age verification] gets Age verification actually gets almost no hate. Society-wide surveillance gets a lot; age verification just happens to be the "think of the children" excuse to shoe-horn in the society-wide surveillance. As OP described, if the age verification is implemented as a "zero-knowledge proof" then we have age verification without society-wide surveillance and nobody is complaining. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-knowledge_proof https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-knowledge_proof