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If you have been watching the news lately, the push for online age and identity verification looks terrifying. Tech giants like Meta are spending tens of millions of dollars lobbying to shift liability away from themselves and force age verification directly into your device’s operating system. Critics are rightfully sounding the alarm. To many, these laws look less like child protection and more like a Trojan horse meant to create an infrastructure for the total surveillance of citizens. People are terrified that the golden age of internet pseudonymity is ending, soon to be replaced by a system where every web page, app, and device tracks your identity.