Well, if we make it expensive enough to operate everywhere, then there will probably be one or two huge "global" sites and hundreds of small local, region-locke

Well, if we make it expensive enough to operate everywhere, then there will probably be one or two huge "global" sites and hundreds of small local, region-locked ones. Maybe that is the future. Cyberspace is not, eventually, independent[1] if you plan to make money off it and use real world IDs. [1]: https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence