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This doesn't work. It's what Facebook, Google and others have been doing for almost a decade now. Has it stopped spam, harassment? No. Most times, harassers ar
by southerntofu 5y ago
This doesn't work. It's what Facebook, Google and others have been doing for almost a decade now. Has it stopped spam, harassment? No.
Most times, harassers are protected by their legal system, not the victims. But if someone dares insult the police, then they'll find you in a second and put you on trial.
We need better tools to manage trust and consent in a decentralized settings without revealing the social graph. I heard the expression "Fog of Trust" a few times to refer to that.
- space_fountain 5y agoFB, Google, and the like don't really do it hard enough though. Hacker news types where very against it, but imagine the US issued digital social security cards that could be used to actually verify a person was who they said they were. It would definitely at least cut back on spam
- southerntofu 5y agoThat is definitely not true. As a privacy-conscious Internet user, who hangs out in privacy-conscious communities, i can assure you having a fully pseudonymous identity on the Internet is harder now than it was 10y ago because of such policies, and it's definitely IMPOSSIBLE to open a google/facebook/twitter account without at least a phone number. Such policies have definitely not cut back on spam (at least not according to my definition of spam), but have prevented countless legit users like me from taking part in such networks. Retrospectively it's a good thing that these networks don't want people like me, we're doing much better elsewhere. I propose you a challenge: if you can view age-restricted videos on Youtube and create a Facebook group without giving your ID, credit card, address, phone number or IP address... i'll send you a cupcake over mail? :P