Yes. The solution for bots and foreign actors filling social media with propaganda is to identify its users. What’s the downside, in EU specifically, to giving social media companies your ID? What are they going to do with it they don’t do already?
Get hacked and leak it for starters, as has already happened with Discord. And social media is a loose definition that can be expanded to include whatever you want. Currently Lemmy and Mastodon are not included but it could be. And Lemmy currently has none of my personal information so uploading my ID would be infinitely worse than what we have now. And before you say it’s not feasible to force all instances to comply or be blocked that won’t stop them trying.
In EU the platforms cannot keep your ID. They have to validate your age and delete the data so there’s nothing to leak. If they will keep the data they are braking the law. Obviously the fact that companies may break the law is not a valid reason not to regulate them. If they are too big to regulate and can’t be forced to follow the law they should be banned.
Yes. The solution for bots and foreign actors filling social media with propaganda is to identify its users. What’s the downside, in EU specifically, to giving social media companies your ID? What are they going to do with it they don’t do already?
Get hacked and leak it for starters, as has already happened with Discord. And social media is a loose definition that can be expanded to include whatever you want. Currently Lemmy and Mastodon are not included but it could be. And Lemmy currently has none of my personal information so uploading my ID would be infinitely worse than what we have now. And before you say it’s not feasible to force all instances to comply or be blocked that won’t stop them trying.
In EU the platforms cannot keep your ID. They have to validate your age and delete the data so there’s nothing to leak. If they will keep the data they are braking the law. Obviously the fact that companies may break the law is not a valid reason not to regulate them. If they are too big to regulate and can’t be forced to follow the law they should be banned.