As @mmasnick points out, so-called "age verification" laws to participate in online activities amount to creating a license to read, and to speak. Anonymity would effectively be banned.

It's also a license for other people to know, in a granular way, what you are reading and saying -- and your personal information would be held by people who cannot be trusted in any way.

techdirt.com/2024/07/08/didnt-

Maybe the worst part of this is that some alleged liberals are all in for this evil plan.