I'm weirdly outside of the age verification debate because I pay for everything, so every website I use regularly doesn't ask me for more information because they already have my dental x-rays and have met my personal FBI agent.

I'm not even anonymous on Nostr.

The irony of the whole situation is that many of the people fighting the hardest to protect online anonymity, aren't anonymous, themselves. Same way that many of us promoting Bitcoin enthusiastically, don't actually have much of it.

It's a conundrum.

I don't know if it's masochism or altruism, to fight this hard to protect rights and assets I hardly use. But, maybe, I might want to use them, one day. And, like, on principle. Or something.

Or — more likely — I am just a useful idiot. The world has never had any shortage of them.