Privacy

I'm interested in govt verified ID as a digital service. One of the biggest hurdles of a less-anonymous web service (which I think has big value in Ai-bot/dead-internet era) is the verification of people's identities. No implementation is likely perfect but I think it would be good to start trying. To me, so long as we're not trying to remove access to the unrestricted web for adults, I think adding verified identities as a public service could be great.

To me, this is the most reasonable path if govt wants to "protect the children". Make big sites use the govt id service for age verification. Lot's of stuff to do to make it viable without infringing on existing adult users but I've been screaming that it starts with govt providing the id service. If that can't be made viable nothing can be. The currently existing idea that each site should separately implement age verification is just dumb to me.