Usually the people who say things like that really just want to restrict everyone's freedoms. Everything else is just bluster.
You may be failing to comprehend the concept of "freedom".
I'll get my simpleminded ass out of here leave this discussion to the scientists.
If you think only "political scientists and lawyers" have to decide what a freedom is, you have quite a totalitarian mindset.
If you have some arguments, pray tell. "I'm the smartest guy here" is not an argument. It's just something an NPC would say when they run out of arguments.
PS: This is not ad hominem. It's a dismissal of your claim of authority.
They've been deciding what "freedom" is for a long time (even deciding what constitutional rights are, on occasion, see ATF bureaucrats constantly publishing and changing rules re-deciding what constitutional restraints they think there are on the 2A).
Of course, these "scientist and lawyers" know they have this power, and are so seeped in it, they occasionally forget when they step out of the ivory tower that the plebs (and indeed, the foundational ideals USA was built on written by those such as Locke) usually either disagree with it or aren't aware that much of the USA functions under "credentialism/technocrat makes right" and the scientist and the lawyer as the arbiter of freedom.
This feels like one of those moments when the technocrats forget that they've shed the thin façade they hide behind.
As for "freedoms," you're not free to vote or drink alcohol below a certain age. And before the internet, minors couldn't purchase pornography, either. Some people perceive this change as a return to normal, not an egregious destruction of freedom.
I am not talking about pornography or alcohol at all.
I hope you are aware that requiring an ID to surf the internet leads to total censoring and self-censoring of the complete internet. There goes your privacy, anonymity, and right to free speech.
If your country's regime really wanted to address pornography or alcohol, I'm pretty sure they would be able to shut it down without requiring everyone's identity. The issue is, they are just using these topics to manipulate people, and you are failing to that trap.
Who's proposing this? I don't want to argue over a straw man.
They are talking about it in the context of "high risk" services and social media, but not the Internet as such.
I think the solution we really need is age verification for table saws. Of course, it goes without saying that the saw should also monitor the user's cuts to make sure they're connected with the right national suppliers who can supply material to meet their needs, and to ensure that you aren't using the saw to cut any inappropriate materials from unregistered sources.
The door is over there. Take the baby out with the bathwater as you leave. -->