The only thing this is going to achieve is to bar unverified users form the vaguely reputable and mainstream places into the small, completely unregulated spaces, sites and networks.

I presume you prefer hard requirement of IDs.

I'm saying this will make kids go to i2p, tor, to the obscure fora in countries not giving a f* about western laws.

As a parent to the teens and teens, THIS makes me concerned. The best vpns are very hard to detect (I know, I try it myself).

> I'm saying this will make kids go to i2p, tor, to the obscure fora in countries not giving a f* about western laws.

Some will, but most won't. Similarly, most kids who are dissuaded from buying alcohol because they don't have ID are not going to break the law to get it, or switch to hard drugs as an alternative.

You can't let perfect be the enemy of better.