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I suppose it can be dependent on the platform. For example, any given platform can provide options to ignore anonymous users who lack a certain level of verific
by wakawaka28 2y ago
I suppose it can be dependent on the platform. For example, any given platform can provide options to ignore anonymous users who lack a certain level of verification. So, you can either trust the platform with your real identity (and hide it), or else you can pay to be truly anonymous. This could get ridiculous with higher and higher prices but it's on us to resist anything too unreasonable in that situation.
- squigz 2y agoI really don't think injecting even more wealth inequality to privacy and freedom on the Internet is a great idea. Not to mention that this would do nothing to stop the problem of bots, as bad actors will simply do what they do now and buy/hack verified accounts.
- wakawaka28 2y agoThe idea is to discourage botnets by increasing the cost of building a botnet. It is about as good of an idea as you're going to find. Of course there would be other ways but this is more effective than captchas, and lets you decide how important it is to you to prove that you are a human or how important it is to you that you are only dealing with humans. You could make a system like this based on IRL contacts but that would potentially compromise your privacy even more. It's also easier to exploit in some ways than a simple payment.