How 'think of the children' becomes real ID for every packet you send (nochan.net)
The argument is mechanical, not partisan: once a site must verify age, liability for that check cascades down the stack until identity sits on every connection.
An older parallel surfaced in the thread, a 2003 essay called The Digital Imprimatur that mapped the same endgame two decades early.
The unanswered engineering question the discussion kept circling: can you prove a user is human and over 18 without proving exactly which human?
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