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>>doomro+(OP)
Age assurance will be the gateway to government issued(via corporate proxy) internet usage permits.

>>krunck+67
Not necessary, Uganda has been levying social media taxes on end-users since 2018 by automatically adding it to your cell phone bill if you access a social media website. About 2.7¢ per day of usage.[1]

Virtually everyone gets their internet from an ISP that is regulated in the country that the user lives in. There are no technical barriers to implementing a permitting system in the United States.

Linking connections to real people is self-enforcing when there is a usage-based tax.

[1] https://www.africanews.com/2018/04/13/uganda-s-social-media-...

>>jjmarr+bb
Do you happen to know what the answer of this scheme to "I have a wireguard connection to another country, you can't see my traffic" is? I know that enough of the population would never bother so it wouldn't significantly harm it as a revenue scheme, but if your goal is avoiding identification rather than taxation then the stakes could be high enough to make the effort worthwhile.

>>regula+ng
The political answer to circumventing laws is usually some form of punishment. This is often much easier than weird technical solutions.

>>gmueck+kj
Indeed. Governments have to worry about 99.9% of cases covered with a law or regulation have punishment in term of fine or imprisonment.

Those remaining very likely have multiple advantages like advance technical knowledge, connection to powerful people in business / governments, money and legal support in case they end up on wrong side of law. There is very little benefit and lot of effort to catch these unless they are running some kind of criminal organization which adversely affects their government/regime.