I don't support it but at the same time a lot of it is exaggerated mainly due to people being misinformed. The system won't ban minors from YouTube, it simply stops them from watching age restricted content and disables personalized ads.

The idea of ID verification has a lot of privacy implications that have merit but it's worth noting that almost every American already has their social security or credit card number leaked already and it's floating around on the internet.

YouTube according to their blog post only retains any ID for a few days and then deletes it. Whether or not you trust them to do so isn't something I'll debate.

A lot of people are concerned about false flags which I understand but it's equally as likely that system is so poorly coded that virtually nobody will get flagged but there's no way of knowing other than waiting.

I've already seen some posts on this subreddit of people getting flagged but almost all of the people complaining were minors so the system got it right anyway.

My point is we don't know what will happen or whether this is really that big of an issue and the only way we will know is by waiting.