alt Hacker NewsOr, you know, they actually want to protect the mental health of people.
You may argue that the approach is bad (I would agree) but it's not because of some evil mastermind plot.
Or, you know, they actually want to protect the mental health of people.
You may argue that the approach is bad (I would agree) but it's not because of some evil mastermind plot.
There's been some pretty clear information from countries enacting online ID laws that they want it precisely so that they can control discourse, not for any kind of protection. This isn't a hypothetical, it's the actual stated goals.
https://bsky.app/profile/tupped.bsky.social/post/3lwgcmswmy2...
> The U.K. Online Safety Act was (avowedly, as revealed in a recent High Court case) “not primarily aimed at protecting children” but at regulating “services that have a significant influence over public discourse.”