> Americans who make the same arguments they make about elections
What is that argument like, in practice?
"I will not tell you who I am, but I demand to vote!"
> that's inevitable for any identity system where identities can be had cheaply
Therein lies the rub. Your system is the economic solution to the spam problem. You don't really care about the passport itself, all you want is to associate generating identity with a cost.
A closely related solution to the same problem is to associate every identity in the system with a phone number, which also carries a cost to generate. Similar to what most tech giants do (helped on by external factors, but that's the basic argument).
Then you cannot hand wave away any problems with that they are "inevitable for any system where identities are too cheap". Because the proposed solution is to associate identity with cost. If that cost is too small in practice, it is not a good solution.
What is that argument like, in practice?
"I will not tell you who I am, but I demand to vote!"
> that's inevitable for any identity system where identities can be had cheaply
Therein lies the rub. Your system is the economic solution to the spam problem. You don't really care about the passport itself, all you want is to associate generating identity with a cost.
A closely related solution to the same problem is to associate every identity in the system with a phone number, which also carries a cost to generate. Similar to what most tech giants do (helped on by external factors, but that's the basic argument).
Then you cannot hand wave away any problems with that they are "inevitable for any system where identities are too cheap". Because the proposed solution is to associate identity with cost. If that cost is too small in practice, it is not a good solution.