The Death of Online Anonymity

Age verification is reshaping how people access the internet. Discord, app stores, social media platforms, and AI chatbots are all being pulled into these requirements.

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of like, going, these, including: An ever-growing patchwork of laws can now require government IDs, facial age estimation, or behavioral inference before you can enter digital spaces.

1. 01An ever-growing patchwork of laws can now require government IDs, facial age estimation, or behavioral inference before you can enter digital spaces
2. 02Almost always, these measures are enacted under the banner of protecting children
3. 03In this episode, John joins Kevin Ball to discuss the different methods of age verification and their privacy implications, the long constitutional history of anonymous speech, how