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>I agree with this, but what is your reasoning for them trying to get adults to stop using the internet?
A bit like GDPR trying to make tech companies chill with the data hoarding.
It's gonna be so fucking obnoxious and in your way constantly, and ever-present to remind you that the internet is no longer a safe space for your pseudonymity; your brain living seperate from how you appear IRL online, that you're gonna "give up" on it.
Like, you'll still be anon, or some username on websites, but it'll start to mentally feel like we're just on Facebook with a fake name, and people will begin to hold each other accountable.
In my country, the think tank responsible for pushing Online Safety Act and the EU ID shit, is literally called "Digital Responsibility".
Several Gen Z politicians have also been in podcasts in the last 2-3 years saying "The problem is anonymity. If we just remove all these fake personas and double-lifes, we can get society back to a normal place."
That, I think is the actual truth behind the OSA shit. Too many normies and politicians are just dead tired of having to constantly worry about what people will do to make their lifes harder through anonymous behavior. Either uploading pictures of them naked or sabotaging political campaigns faster than word of mouth spreads in a local environment. GamerGate type stuff.
And it's a shame in a way, because I've loved that power of the internet, that people can really group together and reveal massive things, but I also see the issue of people uploading things and spreading unverifiable sources about things and you don't know where it ends up.
At the same time, like GDPR, it just feels so regressive to me. If this is what we can do now, why not just hyper-normalize it instead? Train politicians to the fact that it's them who have to adapt and accept that online anonymity is now part of the game?