Ah, yeah I implicitly meant that the identity providers basically have to be government owned so yes.
I don't really see a way around this if the aim is to prove human-ness though.
I don't really see a way around this if the aim is to prove human-ness though.
I don't personally care if Joe the random person has access to an anonymous account*, but I do care if Joe the Russian dissident—whose entire ability to safely post points of view which disagree with his government relies upon it—has access to an anonymous account.
* I am not saying there aren't other valid reasons, including entertainment reasons, to have an anonymous account. But those aren't part of my main point