> As for "freedoms," you're not free to vote or drink alcohol below a certain age. And before the internet, minors couldn't purchase pornography, either. Some people perceive this change as a return to normal, not an egregious destruction of freedom.

I am not talking about pornography or alcohol at all.

I hope you are aware that requiring an ID to surf the internet leads to total censoring and self-censoring of the complete internet. There goes your privacy, anonymity, and right to free speech.

If your country's regime really wanted to address pornography or alcohol, I'm pretty sure they would be able to shut it down without requiring everyone's identity. The issue is, they are just using these topics to manipulate people, and you are failing to that trap.

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otterley 7 hours ago | parent [-]

> requiring an ID to surf the internet

Who's proposing this? I don't want to argue over a straw man.

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miroljub 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Age verification === require an ID

	▲	otterley 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Right. I meant the "to surf the internet" part. Who's proposing this, exactly? No government is mentioned in the article that is doing or considering this. They are talking about it in the context of "high risk" services and social media, but not the Internet as such.