This depends on how the verification is done, in my opinion, as well as whether there is a presence of more anonymous alternatives.
If the EU has a system which does not rely on third parties for verification and allows the platform to verify directly with a government-run service, then the only real issue there is lack of anonymity, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing on a platform if there are also popular anonymous alternatives people can use when they want to.
The article doesn’t go into how ID verification will work though. If it’s through third parties like how the US does it, then that’s disgusting and waiting to be breached.
cristian64@reddthat.com 4 days ago
Not something for general users but, for organisations and public figures, having a platform with only verified entities is valuable.
For general users: Mastodon and the Fediverse.
knokelmaat@beehaw.org 4 days ago
I am a huge proponent of privacy, anonymity and freedom of information and I also totally support this idea.
A public place where people have to speak as their public selves is useful to have and doesn’t mean other spaces have to be removed. Especially for official communication from public entities, I prefer them to use this than some other sites that are rampant with bots, imposters and the like.