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Wisconsin "porn" websites will just move out of Wisconsin.

The bill reads like you would think from someone who's been talking with the ceo of an age verification company. The bill gives the website two options: use a _commercial_ age verification product tied to gov't id checking, or "digitize" the web user's gov't id.

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Holding out for government IdP that can return verified but anonymous data (like age)--like a JWT that has no identifier besides an age claim.

Seems highly unlikely it would ever happen (at least in the U.S.) but seems like it'd solve a decent amount of verification problems. With a JWT, the IdP wouldn't even necessarily need to know the recipient since the validity could be verified by the consuming party using asymmetric crypto.

Yep and I'd just have to automate the process and give out my own JWTs to other people for $2 each

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