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How does a real person share information about illegal or overreaching activity from their government in such a system?

Real name policies from Google and Facebook caused real world problems for people in the LGBTQ+ communities for example.



I don't this will be a good paradigm, just the direction we're probably unfortunately headed in. The Chinese already have something like this implemented[1], though I'm not sure how it works. From a state's perspective monitoring whistleblowers seems like a feature.

[1]https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-41081676




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