Spanish PM calls to end social media anonymity, force digital ID

[schizoidman@lemm.ee]

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/53562405

[troyunrau@lemmy.ca]

So, I'm going to offer a dissenting opinion. Please hear me out before piling on.

The anonymous internet is going to kill the internet. Without verification and attachment back to a real human, eventually the internet will just be flooded with bots, misinformation, and unverifiable information. The dead internet theory.

So, yes, we all worry about "Chinese style social credit scores" or corporate ownership of ID or whatever other dystopian bullshit... But what if you just want to have a site where people can talk to one another and know that they're people that actually have to take responsibility for what they say.

Anyway, I suspect that this will start in isolation. Like when the internet was young and communities were forming with knots of small people... Forums with full verification requirements or similar. Then they will grow once their quality exceeds everything else.

Discuss!

[engineergaming@feddit.nl]

Is my fetish fiction something bad that I have to take accountability for? No, it's harmless. Would I still post it attached to my real name? Never.

[troyunrau@lemmy.ca]

What would you have done before the internet?

[engineergaming@feddit.nl]

I haven't lived before Internet was a big thing, so I don't know just how likely it would be to have it published. Maybe would've sent it to an appropriate small magazine - under a pseudonym, of course.