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My understanding of US current policy:

> your browser history may be used as evidence in a criminal case

Already the case. Mostly for the kind of dumb criminal who is suspected of murder and has been found googling "defences to murder" and "how to hide a body".

> the companies providing the logins must provide government with the identities

If there's a court order (good) or a national security letter (occasionally good but very open to abuse). Maybe the NSA or some guy in DOGE has automatic API access to this data anyway.

> you must be logged in to visit these specific sites where you might see naked boobies, and if you're under age you can't - those sites must enforce logins and age limits

Already the case for youtube and reddit content marked NSFW - either by the creator or by a fairly stupid algorithm. (You can see these boobies, but not those ones.) But the age verification is mostly "open a new account and enter a birth date". Also reddit has the dumbest age verification/login bypass ever. (Your honor, editing an URL is nation-state level hacking and we can't reasonably defend against that.)

> all visits to all sites will be recorded

Something something Permanent Record.

> you must have a valid login with one of these providers in order to use the internet

Ok this one is cheating a bit, but don't you need a google (or samsung etc.) account to set up an android let alone access the internet?

Also cheating a bit but you need a login and contract with your ISP to get on the internet too.



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