> This trusted identity should be something governments need to implement.

Granting the premise for argument's sake, why should governments do this? Why can't private companies do it?

That said, I've long thought that the U.S. Postal Service (and similarly outside the U.S.) is the perfect entity for providing useful user certificates and attribute certificates (to get some anonymity, at least relative to peers, if not relative to the government).

The USPS has:

  - lots of brick and mortar locations
  - staffed with human beings
  - who are trained and able to validate
    various forms of identity documents
    for passport applications

UPS and FedEx are also similarly situated. So are grocery stores (which used to, and maybe still do have bill payment services).

Now back to the premise. I want for anonymity to be possible to some degree. Perhaps AI bots make it impossible, or perhaps anonymous commenters have to be segregated / marked as anonymous so as to help everyone who wants to filter out bots.