Multiple countries including Australia, Greece, and Brazil have passed or are passing age verification laws for social media, typically requiring ID or facial recognition checks. The core tradeoff is real: age verification does eliminate online anonymity to improve child safety, which does affect journalists and activists who rely on anonymous platforms. What the post doesn't mention is that many European governments argue this is necessary to keep minors safer online, and some proposals include privacy-preserving verification methods that don't store biometric data — meaning the anonymity risk may be technically reducible, not inevitable.