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Comment by KETHERCORTEX

12 days ago

> No more paid trolls on social media

If you didn't come up with a way to have paid trolls in such a system doesn't mean that there won't be any.

The logic is simple - making it harder for them to operate will diminish their impact and effectiveness.

  • Unless they are government backed trolls with fake ids issued ad-hoc by that government. That's one of the possibilities.

    People already sell access to their Google accounts so buyers can run not-that-legal ad campaigns. Creating one extra step won't do much to solve problems as long as the incentive is big enough and budget is sufficient.

    • In Western Europe there are no records of government backed trolls.

      You present it as a possibility when it isn’t one as long as we can avoid autocracy which the existing trolls are working towards.