This is happening simultaneously in many Western countries. It is clearly somehow coordinated. You don't need a tinfoil hat to see the conspiracy.

Equally clearly, this is a first step to requiring identity, and ultimately government approval for your activities in the internet.

Somehow, we really must reign in the political class, before we truly land in a dystopia.

This. And the coordinated rollout of digital currencies. It is all a part of the control grid being prepared for us.

One would think this would be obvious to more HN readers, being the supposed technical “systems thinkers” they purport to be.

I guess this is just to accelerate the preparation for a total war.

> It is clearly somehow coordinated

Well, yes—parents’ groups are coordinating. Similar to how drunk driving and cigarette rules were passed globally in about a generation. You don’t need reptiles when polling is so strongly against kids on social media.