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Germany's Merz calls for real names on the internet
(dpa-international.com)
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There is no middle ground to be found here because the reasons the government gives are ad hoc, they are to accomplish other goals they can't be honest about.
They are the purveyors, and protectors, of many influence operations on the internet, and use their influence to help ban accounts those influence operations identify as hostile to their operations.
This is about crushing dissent, and controlling the population, and logging everything said or done or looked at and having ai threat detection parse it all and promulgate half baked conclusions to business and government to use against you secretly without you knowing, done for them by Palantir and their ilk at that.
Israel first always, but also climate and environmental protesters already, but there is no limit to it. They want to entrench powerful interests in power.