> There's no way to implement this without (1) usage-based profiling (what's being banned in the first place) or (2) ID verification.
(3) zero knowledge age verification hosted by the gov which already has all the data anyways
(3) zero knowledge age verification hosted by the gov which already has all the data anyways
Edit: non-snarky response: what's the default "fall-back" if government's signature is missing? IMO any option ("tracking/no tracking/invalid request") will be exploitable in bad ways.
Sometimes I wonder in what kind of alternative reality some people live...
There are technical ways to implement this correctly, it's a political problem, not a technical one.
> We're talking about age, not about your foot fetish, the government definitely knows about your age.
well, yeah, they also know how much i earn, where i live etc. but that's not really my point. my point is what online-stuff they can additionally link to me. you responding with the fetish stuff as a counter-argument is kinda weird, and doesn't really seem to take what i wrote seriously.
i hope if we ever have such a solution its one of those hypothetical zero-knowledge "all we do is check your age and give back a single boolean flag and we also don't record from where and why these requests come", just not that optimistic about it. ban online ads and you got a way easier solution without having to build such a system in the first place.
> it's a political problem, not a technical one
i'd say it's both, so i at least half-agree on that point :)