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I dream of a world, in which people are judged not by their age but by the content of their character.

There are other interaction modes than judging or hating. Age is useful for many of those, its especially useful for tolerance. Most cultures do have age based moral code for interaction which compensates both for experience(lack of) and decaying cognitive abilities due to age or provides credibility for perspective and trustworthiness.

This enforced loss of fidelity is among the primary problems for online communications.

You're right, for example age is useful when picking targets for scams. It would also be great for groomers.

So? Go protect them the proper way. Do you want also to have all your messages scanned because you may be up to something illegal? Should we refrain from encryption because can help terrorists? That's not my cup of tea, I don't like proxy "protections" that are supposed to protect us from evil at some huge cost like loosing privacy or human connection.

I don't subscribe to the idea that we should ban knives because someone can use them to stab someone.

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