Sorry, I was trying to summarise there because the points get repeated a lot. I'm not saying that all ID checks are easy to bypass, but that:
- a lot of people do not want effective ID checks, for a lot of reasons
- effective ID checks are not necessarily easy or even feasible to implement (this may vary depending on your region/government)
- there's a fair chance (some would say high likelihood) that any implemented ID checks are not effective
- ineffective ID checks can fail to do what they were supposed to do (age gating) while still having negative impacts (reduced privacy, more data to the datalords, lower barriers to law enforcement access to your activity, connecting government ID with day-to-day identity, etc.)
- a lot of people do not want effective ID checks, for a lot of reasons
- effective ID checks are not necessarily easy or even feasible to implement (this may vary depending on your region/government)
- there's a fair chance (some would say high likelihood) that any implemented ID checks are not effective
- ineffective ID checks can fail to do what they were supposed to do (age gating) while still having negative impacts (reduced privacy, more data to the datalords, lower barriers to law enforcement access to your activity, connecting government ID with day-to-day identity, etc.)