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Did they or is that just my collective opinion after growing up with the internet and seeing what it's turned into?
Do you not think botnets exist or do you not think those botnets pose as citizens?
Maybe you don't think that the online narratives from social media (Reddit, Facebook, X, Mastadoon, whatever) are driven by botnets boosting signals? Maybe you think online discussion happens organically?
Do you think the average person can distinguish between an AI image and a real image? Photoshop? Do you think the average person would realize that they're discussing a topic with an LLM? How about a foreign agent?
I don't know, maybe you don't think that governments are using this against one-another's citizens to shake up democracy and promote distrust in their institutions?
I think that both (ours and rival) governments and wealthy individuals (or cabals) use online discourse to drive narratives and through that action (or inaction). I think that by doing nothing we leave the majority of the uneducated at the mercy of those devices. By removing anonymity discourse can be filtered and blocked easier.
Personally, I'd much rather have a National Firewall so that there's the Nations Intranet and then the World Wide Web Internet, but if we have to have something and nobody is fighting for anything better, nobody is finding solutions to these social problems we've created, then this'll have to do.
This isn't just an issue that's affecting the U.S. - every Nation has to find a solution to this problem. We either have to combat it with better, alternative solutions, or we have to accept it as a solution to an evergrowing problem.
I don't know why you think an online ID will stop botting, people get viruses and hacked all the time. All this does is make people's data more valuable, and create a valuable repository of people's personal information. Not to mention the centralization of user data, which will no doubt be used to monitor average people. Both by governments looking for dissenters, and by advertisers, who will use that data to squeeze every last cent out of you via Surveillance pricing.
What do you think will happen when the nations collective web browsing information inevitably gets leaked and anyone can look up anyone's name, see their license and what they've watched on YouTube or elsewhere? It's creepy tech, not protection.
The solution to these 'social problems' is funding education. But that doesn't work quickly, costs money, and various groups of people in power oppose widespread critical thinking. Making sure people aren't exhausted because they can't afford anything and are always working would help too, but it's not 'sexy' to uplift people's standard of living I guess