Counter proposal: We should do the exact opposite of everything in this post. The internet is good exactly in the ways it is not limited by RL. Using IRL ID is

Counter proposal: We should do the exact opposite of everything in this post. The internet is good exactly in the ways it is not limited by RL. Using IRL ID is at best playing into advertisers hands, and at worst the aberration which is damaging the positive aspects of the internet. >It's nothing more than an unhealthy vice Poster's morality is subjective and geographically constrained. Definitely doesn't scale in relevance to a global network. >people living unauthentic split lives with multiple incongruent personas This is already the state of a person living in a consumer society. Adopting personas plucked from lifestyle marketing, just long enough to consume products (socially/publicly), before discarding said personas. Social media personas in their very congruence are synthetic and inauthentic, because they're built as audience pleasing product. People’s pre-social media compartmentalized internet personas are the closest humanity has come to authenticity. >extension of reality with the same social dynamics All social dynamics are historically contingent, so why is it axiomatic that they should apply to the internet, rather than have its own new and organic social dynamics or netiquette. >The end result being that many of the problems we associate with the internet cease to exist. Those problems almost immediately became magnitudes worse in the facebook/twitter age of RL ID. >accountability Who are these platforms to hold anyone accountable? What a colossal double standard. The users may be held accountable, but the platforms make their own rules. The platform which has the power to authenticate you has power over you. We’re better off with our own weak IDs.