We stopped selling alcohol and cigarettes unless you dox yourself to shady gas stations and stores.

Both of which famously keep databases of everyone’s IDs, and require transmitting your ID over who-knows-what network to who-knows-where.

Oh, wait, no they don’t.

Again, if done correctly, it can be done privately and securely. I am not advocating that we give our ID to every sketchy internet site. I am advocating for a widespread secure and standardized solution.

Right, and such a solution will ultimately just require everyone to trust the fact that it’s been “done privately and securely”