It's not "the Internet" who wants to check your ID, it's politicians who want to, since the internet is the new place where citizens are exercising their freedom of assembly rights and that frightens politicians.

Life would be so much easier for Trump if people stopped pestering him online about that bloody Epstein list, or if EU citizens would stop pestering their politicians about the crimes of illegal immigrants.

They want to control your speech using the daily boogieman flavor: terrorists, protecting the kids, Russian trolls, etc