Comment by matheusmoreira
3 years ago
Yup. It's none of their business. They can't discriminate against us if they don't know anything about us.
3 years ago
Yup. It's none of their business. They can't discriminate against us if they don't know anything about us.
Can't trust you either. Are you a bot? Well it's good to assume you are by default, since it's the majority of internet traffic anyway. And for your privacy, you're not exactly forthcoming with data to now prove otherwise.
So sorry, until you pay with a unique individual bank account to prove identity, you can't post on future social media sites. You are a bot after all.
Even if I was a bot, what of it? Your site should serve bots just as well as it serves humans. Only people who care about that are those who want to monetize our eyeballs by selling our attention to the highest bidder.
If it's costing you money, have your HTTP server return 402 Payment Required instead of the free page. That's how it should be.
There are vast reasons to prevent brigading, false information, information manipulation and any other number of malicious inputs that otherwise in a forum for people require trust to maintain community quality. Even for free reasons, especially say nice interest groups like one I used to be on for small satellites that got destroyed by uncontrolled bot spam.
I do not agree that every piece of the internet "should be" behind a paywall because bad actors exist. That world is the literal death of the "open" internet, putting everything behind a paywall.
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