I'm relatively confident this was the entire end goal of the Online Safety Act. Get the (relatively) easy law passed, then "oh no platforms are only requiring this for UK-based IPs and there are too many VPNs/proxies, I guess we need to de-anonymize everyone".

What a brilliant plan! Nobody could have seen this coming!

God I'm sick of the constant attacks against online freedom.

God forbid anyone should ever have a private conversation.