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lol this legislation might be trash from top to bottom but it sure don't mean commercial VPNs are a good thing
contrary to the general opinion i think attaching social media accounts to real identities anonymously (which is remarkably easy to do) will go a very long way to solving the bot, troll, commercial and foreign influence issues with social media. while still being private and anonymous
To someone in e.g. the USA, doing as you may may literally be the difference between life and death, when agents show up at your door for exercising the incorrect opinion. I presume here that the "anonymous" part is only what is shared with the public, but since you mentioned "real identities" that is the part that is dangerous.
for it to work the government must not be able to access the public website's database that associates, say, your online activity with your government id token, and the public website must never have access to the government database where your personal information is associated with the government id token
this means the website, for example, would only know that you are the same human (or someone with access to that human's government id documents), if you sign up with a different avatar. the government only knows that you use a certain website
if that is not the case then yes this information can be abused