Then they will break you and industry that wants data will win. You vs bourgeois governments, you will lose.

This is a serious push and though children are the cover they're after surveillance. Take away their talking points, give them what they claim to want but in a privacy-preserving way and this goes away for another 10 years before they can make another push.

If we win this fight by doing a zero knowledge form they have no scaffolding to use on which to build anything further. If we lose and they build something that isn't zero knowledge it will 100% be used in a few years to iterate on to build more surveillance and control.

Basically if we don't push for this privacy alternative and instead fight like hell against it entirely they'll listen to the only voices putting forward a solution which is meta and the other privacy invasive actors who want an invasive approach. If it's made heard that people will accept this we can shunt them onto this path.

Ideally we'd push onto this path but make demands that it doesn't require verification. That parents can set it up at phone/computer setup and it cannot be changed without reinstalling the OS or erasing the phone and that on phones it gets tied to a Google/Apple account. That way there's not even any identity aspect involved but tools given to parents who want to do this. Shove it back to parental responsibility. But this would be a compromise we could live with and still have some privacy with.