Let’s just gloss over the observation that an internet which is instrumented to know whether you are a child, will very likely become instrumented to know precisely who you are. If you are required to know one fact about a user, that fact is likely to be linkable to your identity, for convenience’s sake if no other. Goodbye anonymity and freedom from tracking.

Also: AgeVerification is dead! Long live AgeAssurance! Note especially number 3 in the image below, this is all stuff which was already demolished regarding section 3 of the Digital Economy Bill.

PDF: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/934131/November_VoCO_report_V4__pdf.pdf

Also: no mention of Civil Society / not wanting to be surveilled, here?