Surely national ID cards will help against these porn videos. Like they did help against terrorism. And credit card fraud. Or cheating in Chinese video games.

IDs don't prove your real identity, especially online.

Who mentioned national ID cards?

The article complains about the low hurdles which xvideos has for creating a new account (they only require an email).

I can’t think of anything else than phone numbers and IDs which they could require for uploaders. Do you have any other ideas?

A phone number helps a bit. In many places buying a handset or a SIM will leave some paper track the police can follow.

> The less anonymous the poster is, the easier it gets for law enforcement

But this would have a horrifying, chilling effect on marginalized communities. Anonymity allows for one to publish marginalized interest works and trans-oriented contents.

This is especially important for less-than-safe jurisdictions, for which even bog-standard sex workers may well find themselves in the crosshairs of a fascist government, or even grass-roots persecution from far-right sources using hacked data! It is, after all, only a matter of time for most any web site in this day and age for a user-data compromise.

These kinds of policies lead to harassment, violence, and imprisonment for many.

Agreed but the lack of these kinds of policies also lead to harassment and violence for many, so it's clear a discussion needs to be had.

I would choose reducing real harm caused by the actual distribution of abuse material (anyone can be abused in this way even in marginalised communities) if the only cost was potentially chilling the distribution of trans-oriented adult content. Seems like a small price to pay to reduce the effects of one of the worst things the internet has enabled.