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[–] LangleyDominos@hexbear.net 13 points 3 weeks ago

Couple threads in my mind about this:

  1. Social media giants have been trying to figure out moderation for a while. It is always met with backlash. All this regulation is laundering the backlash to the government, giving tech companies a little PR help
  2. On that same beat, if everyone is documented then it makes moderation way easier from a technical standpoint. Fewer financial resources have to go into moderation.
  3. Part of this has to be a correction for bots. Tech giants are learning that unregulated bots are bad, especially with trying to train AI. They want to crush bots that are not theirs and validate that their users are real. This will help them tremendously with marketing as they can point to a real user base and know their AI training data is coming from real people
  4. There is also the dream that all this will be automated by AI, despite the UK suddenly being filled with Normans Reedus. So offloading resources from moderation isn't just moving it to ID validation, resources are also reduced there as well.