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remember when in 2021 a study analyzing positive tweets declared jensen sexiest man alive because everyone kept talking about his sexy silence

While it's true that mandatory identity verification will inevitably be leaked on a massive scale, the thing you need to understand when framing these arguments is that a lot of the folks in favour of such measures don't see that as a bad thing. Full de-anonymisation of the Internet is their explicit goal. Like, the actual objective here is for everyone to have a public record of everything they say and do – online or otherwise – linked to their government ID. The universal panopticon is the good ending as far as these people are concerned.

So what's the better way to frame these arguments? Is there one?

If your aim is to persuade, you can't just stop at "your identity and activities will be made public". A lot of the people you're trying to convince don't see that as bad in and of itself, and as far as they're concerned, the fact that you do means you've got something you hide. You need to take it past "your identity and activities will be made public" and hit specific, actionable negative consequences of that disclosure.

Negative consequences such as, for example, identity theft going through the roof

"post without tags?" OH IM FUCKING SORRY #BEES #9/11

what?

a second bumblebee has hit the flowers

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@pixel-mess

real and true

i dont need a job. loving that fictional character IS my job and my salary is $0

i’m in trenches you’ve never heard of

Me n my mutuals watching it all unfold……….

Whatching what unfold?

I'm going to *remembers suicide jokes are detrimental to my mental health* quit my job and start making shoes for American Girl Dolls