alt Hacker NewsThe rise of anti-Establishment politics led the Establishment to strike back, and they play for keeps.
That said I still expect mandatory age verification/ID for the internet to fail legal challenges in the US as there is broad precedent for both anonymous speech rights and children’s speech rights under the first amendment.
The anti-Establishment people that were only anti-Establishment until they had power, then they are very much pro-Establishment.
The writing has been on the wall for years with a desire among states to identify individuals using the internet. Whether or not we will continue to win the fight against it is up in the air.