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That's a rather handwavey statement. The hypothetical presented is essentially a highly regulated walled garden. "Bad guys" would be blocked or cited. If all c
by JauntyHatAngle 5y ago
That's a rather handwavey statement.
The hypothetical presented is essentially a highly regulated walled garden. "Bad guys" would be blocked or cited. If all content is tied to an ID, yes it would work.
China has shown that for the most part you can regulate the majority of discourse in an online space if you wall it off to the bit you control. Not sure how this is different.
Not that I agree with it. Not a fan of the suggestion myself.
- mtgx 5y agoyou're assuming that those IDs can't be forged. Pretty big assumprion. When in history has existed an id or authentication method that couldn't be forged or broken?
- yjftsjthsd-h 5y agoAnd Facebook has demonstrated that requiring real identities doesn't stop misinformation at all.
- JauntyHatAngle 5y agoThe question was bots and controlling discourse, not misinformation.
- TigeriusKirk 5y agoIf it's too hard to identify fake content, how do you identify bad guys, even if you know their IDs? What difference does it make what ID is attached to information if you can't identify it as fake? If you can identify it as fake, the whole premise evaporates.
- piptastic 5y agoI don't think the premise evaporates. There's a solvable difference between checking an ID against a database of IDs you control, vs identifying the fakeness of any other piece of random information.