This comment does not hold up to scrutiny.

Appealing to the pragmatic and the "game theory" of complying with authoritarian rule that you don't have power over - because the other party that you don't have any power over will benefit from it - is a zero-sum argument.

"The more I hear about this [Hitler] guy, the less I care for him" - Norm MacDonald

Great list - thank you!!

Wasn't half the HN crowd repping this place yesterday when the Vercel CEO offered to pay for Jmail? Rough lol

Well then what was the point? If you gave them an ID that matches your name and DOB, they still got an identity vector that can conclusively match to your physical, government-acknowledged identity.

Not having a correct photo or license number didn't really mean anything to them if their OCR didn't have any half-decent verification that would look at the fields where that information was expected to be, anyway.