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'Anonymity Online Is Going to Die': What Age-Verification Laws Could Look Like in the U.S.
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At least that means sites won't have the illusion of engagement when it's actually just a flood of bots talking to each other, right?
...Right?
Not if this goes accompanied with new laws that force consuming content or products from the favoured oligarchies.
After all, if they know what you are doing on the internet, they know you are not spending your money on the stuff they want. And once they can control that, it's over.
Yup, but ohhhh boy do I hate being right about these kinds of things…