alt Hacker News> Age verification will be implemented as identity identification.
Thank you for bringing an argument.
I want to start by tackling your argument head on. What if it's not though. What if it's implemented by attestation and signatures rooted at your local national government? Nobody will be able to tie whatever you watch or write to your identity, because they won't have it. To my understanding, that's what's proposed here, and that won't feasibly lead to any of the spooky consequences you're predicting.
There's another leg to it also. "anything you read or write or watch or say will be tied to your identity" is already true right now. Google is already, at this second, tracking my every move online and using it against me in a targeted advertisement campaign to change my spending habits, but my political affiliations too. If you're truly afraid of that outcome, I believe there are much more prescient and immediate things you should oppose than this.
> signatures rooted at your local national government? > Google is already, at this second, tracking my every move online
Apparently you haven't figured out yet that these two are partners. The government restrictions are needed in order to allow other players to perform correlation tracking and deducing your identity.
> Nobody will be able to tie whatever you watch or write to your identity, because they won't have it.
This is untrue in the light of what I said above. The proposed scheme lacks any proof of immunity against tracking and deducing identity. I haven't seen anything like a proof being discussed anywhere while an honestly implemented scheme would require a long and well publicized discussion of the means of protection to make sure it cannot be abused for political reasons.
The lack of such a discussion is actually a proof that the purpose of the proposed scheme is precisely abuse.