2026-04-15 12:55 UTC
They also want a reliable way to differentiate between chatbots and real users, because advertising isn't very effective on chatbots.
But also, one benefit of ID laws for the government is that it makes court proceedings much faster and cheaper. Sure, they're tracking everyone online, but a lot of that information is locked behind procedure. By just requiring ID to log in they can sidestep the procedures, because they can just ask corporations nicely for ID information and they'll eagerly comply.
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@1dalm@lemmy.today 2026-04-15 15:13
I didn't know about that. Maybe that's plays into it too. But I'm generally a "simpler answer is more likely the most correct" type of guy. In this case the simple answer is that Meta and others just had their "Tobacco Lawsuits" moment in court and liability floodgates are any to open wide, and they are pushing these laws to divert their liability onto someone else.