Discord’s age verification saga is just the visible tip of a much larger shift. Governments, platforms, and identity verification companies are all converging on the same goal: tying your real identity to everything you do online. The framing is child safety. The result is the slow death of anonymous internet use. And the timing of all of it, from Discord’s IPO to California’s new OS-level age verification law, tells you everything you need to know about who this actually serves.

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