Astroturfing was already a thing.

Identification fixes nothing here, you log with your account, plug in the AI.

The problems with social media have nothing to do with ID and everything to do with godawful incentives, the argument seems to be that it's a large price to pay but that it's worth it. Worth it for what? The end result is absolutely terrible either way

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iamnothere 8 hours ago | parent [-]

Astroturfing will still be a thing after ID. What, you think the government is going to go after their own bot armies?

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edgyquant 8 hours ago | parent [-]

I think it would be a lot more difficult for anyone to do and it isn’t like people will be using government platforms at least not in the west

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Levitz 7 hours ago | parent [-]

>I think it would be a lot more difficult for anyone to do

Why? Like, what makes you think that?

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fyredge 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Because of ID tracking? Say you have attach your government approved ID to use social media. It is now trivial to check how many accounts you have made and how much you have posted. You certainly can't be posting faster than the fastest typist in the world. And if you're mostly just copy pasting, is the quality of the posts actually worth engaging with?

While I am not against internet ID, there is a case to be made for social media for the harms they are causing.

	▲	amiga386 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Let's say the government issues hundreds of thousands of IDs to people who don't exist and uses them to verify bots (or room full of paid humans) that post pro-government messages all day, at "normal" rates that a human posts. It's amazing how there is a much larger crowd, of completely real people, who approve of the government, than those nasty dissenters. We know they're real people because we trust the government vouching for its own IDs. And because of the real ID policy, the government can also ask the social media company for the ID used by opposed posters, and find out where they live and "visit" them, maybe "warn" them. Hooray for democracy!