Web commentary columns of some Estonian newspapers, most notably Eesti Päevaleht, used to support ID-card based authentication for comments. This approach caused some controversy in the internet community.[3]
People are too lazy to use ID cards for something like commenting. More importantly though, most Estonian comments are anonymous with people attacking each other or politicians or whoever they like. Nobody wants to comment using their real identity.
Apparently it is not used anymore?
Web commentary columns of some Estonian newspapers, most notably Eesti Päevaleht, used to support ID-card based authentication for comments. This approach caused some controversy in the internet community.[3]