“There's plenty of research in this topic area that shows hate speech doesn't decline when real-name policies are in effect, in fact usually the inverse, and the diversity of people contributing to conversations decreases” — bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5w4eqcxzw5jv5…
More on the implementation/methodology side of the topic. Age gating laws/reasoning/discussions: semble.so/profile/aiueo.ooo/collections…

Security researchers claim Persona, the provider behind Discord's UK age verification 'experiment', performs '269 individual verification checks' on user data, including those for terrorism and espionage

Fury over Discord’s age checks explodes after shady Persona test in UK
I Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here's What I Actually Handed Over.

Hackers uncover the most alarming frontend leak in Discord’s age verification data

Users claim Discord's age verification test can be tricked with game characters

Wer dein Gesicht scannt, wenn du dich online verifizierst
PACT Workshop

CAPTCHAだらけのウェブを変える人間証明システム「PACT」とは?

PACT: Anonymous Credentials for the Web – Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog

Revisiting Keyed-Verification Anonymous Credentials

CAPTCHA successor Privacy Pass has no easy answers for online abuse | The Mozilla Blog

The web should remain anonymous by default | The Mozilla Blog