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Twitch is requiring new affiliates to give their government ID and a separate photo to Persona (bsky.app)

submitted 2 days ago by cm0002@lemy.lol to c/privacy@programming.dev

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[–] JakenVeina@midwest.social 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Fucking why? Being able to link a bank account for ad payments isn't enough to prove adulthood?

[–] dangling_cat@piefed.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think the whole reason is not “verify you are an adult”. It’s for anti-bot. Bots are too good nowadays. It’s indistinguishable at scale. And bots are bad for advertisers.

[–] Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 day ago

That's one hot take... Advertisers don't care if the streamer is a bot, they care if the viewer is a bot. Mega-corpo's ideal solution is 100% bot streamers and 100% real people viewers.

This isn't age verification, or anti-bot. This is straight up fulfilling surveillance contracts with the US government. They don't even need to justify it, they are holding money hostage instead.