alt Hacker NewsUltimately I come back to needing real actual unique human ID that involves federal governments. Not that services should mandatorily only allow users that use it, but for services that say "no, I only want real humans" allowing them to ban people by Real ID would reduce this whack-a-mole to the people who are abusing them instead of the infinite accounts an AI can make.
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yreg • 07/31/2025
It's depressing, but it's probably the only way. And people will presumably still sell out their RealIDs to / get them stolen by the bot farmers anyway.
And then there's Worldcoin, which is universally hated here.
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I think it's important to distinguish between where we need actual identity versus the lesser issue of ensuring NewAccount123 has "skin in the game", and not part of a hydra-headed botnet.
When we do that, it opens up solutions which are far more privacy conscious and resistant to abuse. (For example, being blocked from signing up for new accounts because somebody in the federal government doesn't like an op-ed you wrote.)