Age verification proposals are often presented as a simple tradeoff: sacrifice a little privacy to better safeguard children online. But that framing overlooks a more fundamental question. What happens to people who cannot verify their age at all? This is particularly a problem when users are required to prove their age with identity documents.



Better yet don’t have a server at all. Peer to peer. OG Skype did it and they killed it. OG Skype was great.