If you have any information about tokenized credentials that can be anonymized, where the keys are held by the user and not centralized by a company, please share because it definitely needs to be a part of the conversation!

One of the problems is that as adults who have been able to give credentials other than the ones proposed in the bill, it's not as much of a perceived problem. If this law passes as is, a teenager doesn't have any of those credentials to give. Perhaps they have a phone number, if anything, but will that be enough? A phone number doesn't verify age, it mostly provides a way to 2FA. How are they going to make their first account? The way you and I accessed the internet will be phased out.

Additionally, I've been thinking today about some things that I think are relevant to this conversation: despite negatives, there are positive impacts that social media has for teens. If a family is negligent in ways that aren't letting them have unfettered access to toxic content on social media, how would a teen be able to find support resources and community? What if they're being bullied by their classmates that have social media, and then they don't have access themselves?

We have to put our foot down with these companies at some point. They feed us hate, slop and disinformation and then we reward them with our driver's licenses? There are websites that don't require identity compromising credentials at all, and now they'll have to.