(FOX 2) - Some users of YouTube in the United States may be barred from the platform starting Wednesday as the Google-owned media giant plans to roll out ID verification, amid a trend of similar decisions propping up around the debate about online safety.

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In a sweeping motion across the globe, internet anonymity may become a thing of the past, as new laws that were introduced or passed are forcing some to send in their government-issued IDs for verification.

The discussion of age verification on the internet has been in talks between lawmakers for years, under the guise of children's safety on social media and entertainment platforms. In fact, many US states have passed their own laws, enforcing explicit adult websites to ask for an ID to accurately verify if a user

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