While that’s the phrasing the Truth Minister used, she seems to be suggesting that verified users should be able to comment or annotate other peoples tweets. W

While that’s the phrasing the Truth Minister used, she seems to be suggesting that verified users should be able to comment or annotate other peoples tweets. Which to me is reinventing something that already exists, a reply chain. They’re also proposing limiting this to verified users, which is also something that also exists, facebooks “real name” policy has been around for 2 decades, and Musk is already independently proposing to ramp up verification. I don’t know why anybody would think sitting around forming a committee is going to produce any meaningful change. Social media is the result of decades of Darwinian iterative evolution, it’s not something one is likely to improve on sitting around a table for a few weeks. The only meaningful thing this committee could do to affect online discourse for better or for worse is recommend going after section 230 and unleashing the nuclear bomb of making platforms accountable for their users posts effectively making the vast majority of social media unlawful. Cute ideas to tweak the status quo aren’t going to do anything.