> There is not a world where we decide to restrict purchase by age in meatspace but throw up our hands and say “whelp we just can’t have digital ID presentation that would ruin society I guess we should give up on digital age verification and just let kids do whatever”.
And after you take the rose tinted glasses off, it was full of spam and scams and abuse and all the other low reputation poor security crap that happens when anybody can be anybody all the time. And if that world was good/sustainable then nobody would be working to make digital identity possible, would they? We grew up in it, now it seems we’re work working to iron out the kinks.
Not everything needs or should have strong ID. But no I don’t want my children stumbling into a porn site because they got click jacked by unscrupulous advertisements they never consented to being solicited with. I don’t want them learning about the world that way. A simple age check without revealing any personal info supported by the digital credential standards being discussed here would absolutely be an improvement.
Having my age checked at the time of purchase for alcohol rather than having to present my ID to the delivery person would also be an improvement.
Yes there is and we all grew up in that world.