Will the UK Require Digital ID to Use the Internet ???

The UK, following the example of China, has proposed that any place providing internet access use bank-account verification to affirmatively identify all the people who use the internet.  UK Security Minister Ben Wallach said that social media companies should bear the cost of tracking the identities of all their users.

Real-name policies have proved to be a boon to authoritarian rulers; in Cambodia, dictator Hun Sen has embraced Facebook, creating a direct pipeline to Facebook's real-name compliance team that his government uses to force critics to reveal their real identities (exposing them to arrest and torture), or leave the platform.

Are we soon to see this same policy in the UK?  (Read more at Boing Boing, June 11, 2018)