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I don't think you are fully wrong, but the issue is your rhetoric is very much used by conservatives or "both sides are bad" which are just mask-on conservatives who end up voting the same way. And the problem with conservatives is not really the ideals and ideas, but the fact that they vote Republican (or whatever the equivalent party is in other countries), that all pretty much are the exact opposite of those ideals.

Age verification is already a thing IRL, there is no reason to not extend it online considering so much of our lives is digital. Overall I think anonymity should be reduced on the internet in general - a big reason of the world issues, especially in USA is that ideas can grow in forums where people under etherial identities can tell lie after lie without any repercussion.

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How can you criticize those for voting Republican when you're advocating for the extremely authoritarian and dystopian position of banning anonymous discourse online?

Im criticizing voting Republicans because in practice, they are the ones that vote for people who are actually in the process of implementing authoritarian measures in real life. So when those people start talking about anything they deem as authoritarian or dystopian, its a moot conversation because they are the LEAST qualified to talk about those things.

> a big reason of the world issues, especially in USA is that ideas can grow in forums where people under etherial identities can tell lie after lie without any repercussion.

See, I wouldn't have as much of an issue if you were honest about this real intention, because of how on the nose it is to reasonable people.

The idea that I will have to upload 3D models of my face and ID, or get permission from Google, just to go online because you don't like the idea of someone else's kids using the internet is absurd.

Please stop using appeals to children in your quest to "stop ideas from growing".

You don't have to upload your face, you just have to have a stable online identity that can be tied to you.

In the same way that you have a stable IRL identity that is your actual body so when you go into public places, you can be identified later if need be.

Depends where it's being rolled out.

Similar systems are rolled out where I am, and they all involve proving you're the real living person that matches your ID, and not just someone who took another person's ID or knows their credentials, via live video of multiple angles of your face.

> Age verification is already a thing IRL, there is no reason to not extend it online considering so much of our lives is digital. Overall I think anonymity should be reduced on the internet in general - a big reason of the world issues, especially in USA is that ideas can grow in forums where people under etherial identities can tell lie after lie without any repercussion.

Ah yes. Anonymity is the only thing that enables dishonesty and of course it's the government's moral duty to regulate it.

Once anonymity is banned, the world will be honest and good and True and we'll all look back on the Bad times thinking how silly we all were.

The best part of minority report was the way everything constantly tracked identity through retinal scans; i can't wait for the future!

> Once anonymity is banned, the world will be honest and good and True and we'll all look back on the Bad times thinking how silly we all were.

It's a shame you don't read the North Korean press. Otherwise you'd know that the elimination of anonymity on the Internet led to exactly this

Anonymity is banned to ban honesty.

What is the most anonymous public website on the internet right now? And what kind of content does it have?

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