It’s ridiculous to suggest that you destroy all of internet anonymity by requiring ID for mass-scale ad-funded social media It’s the commercial side of the eq

It’s ridiculous to suggest that you destroy all of internet anonymity by requiring ID for mass-scale ad-funded social media It’s the commercial side of the equation that’s the problem. It’s what gives these social media companies perverse incentives when it comes to engagement. So any social media site that can’t effectively tap into the US ad market at a significant scale will not have as much of a problem. I don’t think the pre-Facebook forums was as much of a problem even though they might have had some ads here and there. So VPNs and all that just isn’t a concern. You don’t need a great firewall. You just need to regulate commercial business, which is not at all a crazy proposition. The other side of this is that the US really, really should implement an effective federal ID system with two factor authentication. This is becoming commonplace almost everywhere else in the world, and not having it creates very serious security and privacy risks.