yea, both roads lead to dystopia.
either they build panopticon via ID-verified-everywhere, or via mandated scanning-of-your-living-room-grade messaging. choose the flavour of chains you prefer.
imo if crypto age tokens are *genuinely* tokenized (zkped out and computed on your own hw), that's way saner than handing every site your driver’s license mid-boner-scroll. and to avoid chat control - use tools built *outside* their sandbox, like Vector - *Privacy by Principle*. DM over NIP-17; no one can enumerate, let alone scan.
but yeah… optimistic? nah. we just move first.