[throw03172019]

Are lawmakers bored? Who is asking for this? Not the tax paying citizens.

[tonymet]

Lobbyists for intelligence agencies. It’s part of de-anonymization so you can be punished for speech online. See UK , Germany and Australia

[NitpickLawyer]

> Lobbyists for intelligence agencies.

I think it's one peg below intel agencies. It's the local gov agencies that want that power. The 3 letter peeps can already tell who writes what, both at scale and targeted.

[tzs]

Interesting theory considering that this California approach does not de-anonymize you, and the approach Germany is working on, as part of an EU wide effort, also does not de-anonymize you.

[SoftTalker]

Parents who are fed up with social media and tech companies taking no social responsibility.

These companies have fewer ethics than a minimum-wage liquor store clerk when it comes to caring about the age of their users.

[sunaookami]

Parents are lazy and don't want to do what parents should do and cry to the state that they should do it.

[outime]

Will those parents get fed up of themselves not taking parenting responsibility?

[wraptile]

Maybe they should try _parenting_

[arjie]

The way people ask for things like this is "Young people shouldn't be allowed to do X" and "Websites shouldn't be allowed to collect user data to determine if the people are underage" and so on. The intersection of all the things that "tax paying citizens" want is usually something patently absurd.

[JodieBenitez]

They hate freedom and its joined concept of responsibility.

[fschuett]

Certain politicians that are concerned about "the young people are being radicalized online" about certain topics, uncomfortable to said politicians (left / right dialectic doesn't matter, especially not in America). They know that their monopoly over brainwashing children in public schools matters a lot. So, their solution is to shut off any access to any site where you can discuss topics anonymously by forcing more and more regulation to shut down said sites.

Yes, yes, free speech and everything, you just have to first give the OS your phone number, credit card number, drink a verification can and please also... you do want to still keep your job, right?