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The reason the platforms want ID is to differentiate the humans from the bots. Then they can show real humans the ads and make more money.
The real reasons platforms want ID is so the government can harass whoever is talking shit and organizing against them. The secondary reason isn’t to distinguish them from bots to show them ads, it’s to coincide with confidence the multiple likely existing profiles of people across multiple platforms, help evade privacy measures like adblocksrs and VPNs.
Never be critical again and be a good consumer. We will control all that you see and hear.
The Snowden Revelations showed that the UK had even more pervasive Civil Society Surveillance than the US, literally levels of surveillance of the public that would make the Stasi in East Germany green with envy.
Further, whilst in the US they walked it back a bit after those revelations, in the UK they just passed a law to retroactivelly make all of it legal, newspapers got a bunch of D-Notices (the UK's censorship mechanism) to shut up and the editor of the newspaper who brought it all out was canned.
Even if you know nothing about all the other scandals that have come out over the years around that in the UK (such as Green Party MEPs being under surveillance or Environmentalist groups having been infiltrated by coppers), one's perspective on why those controlling power in Britan would want to "validate" and gatekeep where people go and what people do online, should at least be informed by what Snowden revealed and how those holder power in Britain dealt with it.
The US has more than caught up though. The US regime us currently working on establishing a DNA databank of all political opponents it can artest under unlwaful conditions, during lawful protests for example, long enough to get the samples, feeding everything into one huge database with all the other legally and illegally aquired data. When the time comes they'll have already a list of everyone who has to disappear, like the Gestapo in Austria during Anschluss.
The fact that the government wants those things is a secondary profit opportunity.
Selling ads to real people to fake their earnings is what they really want.
Fascism is corporatism.
Train bots to click through.
This is purely interpretational and not what I intended.
I replied to the wrong person.
Then we are friends.
You believe that? I have an exciting investment opportunity for you because you are so naive.
I mean, it's definitely part of the reason. That kind of data is valuable to more than just governments and intelligence agencies.
Don't delete your comments big boy, say it with your chest.
It's not all about you.
First, there's no reason for the snarky attitude.
Second, knowing for sure that a given user is human would definitely make their traffic more valuable.
You brought nothing to this,
All these laws started to pass when AI really hit its prime