Why all this catastrophising over verifying with a government ID? It works well for flying places, collecting post, registering visitors, so why not this.
The rent extraction argument sounds preposterous. Should a bouncer have to pay compensation to the government if he uses a driving license to make sure his clientele are of age?
Step 1: charge for govID (premiumfi it)
Step 2: make govID freemium
Step 3: drop the pretense & de facto req govID
Bonus Step: blame the govID req on Ey Ay
> The National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC) is a US government initiative announced in April 2011 to improve the privacy, security and convenience of sensitive online transactions through collaborative efforts with the private sector, advocacy groups, government agencies, and other organizations. The strategy imagined an online environment where individuals and organizations can trust each other because they identify and authenticate their digital identities and the digital identities of organizations and devices.
With programmable money (CBDC) proposed by multiple countries and draft EU/UK/US regulations to impose criminal liability and mandatory audits on developers of "critical software" like operating systems, there aren't many hurdles remaining for dystopian unification of offline and online identity, e.g. after a hypothetical "cyber" crisis.
The government works for us (the people, as well as businesses owned by people). We already pay for government services in the form of taxes. If anything, government services should generally be free (we do make some exceptions for use fees to avoid free rider problems and general waste, but we would balk at very high fees).
The rent extraction argument sounds preposterous. Should a bouncer have to pay compensation to the government if he uses a driving license to make sure his clientele are of age?