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I should add that my teacher would think we couldn't understand the science or concept behind airflow going through the classroom to cool us off. He'd explain it over and over and …

My 4rd grade teacher was convinced of the science of using two fans to cool off the classroom: one blowing cool air into the classroom from the hallway and one fan blowing hot air …

"we must devise new business models and structural incentives that aren’t rooted in manipulation and coercion...In the short-term, that might be achieved by turning to basic subscr…

The business model of using targeted advertising as the main source of revenue will always be at odds with protecting user data privacy, and same goes for not making users addicted…

"We" the people that don't want a few big social media companies dominating the internet, "support" is use and pay for them if needed.

"...but the solutions they are offering could just help the big players get even more powerful." That's why we should support startups from outside the valley, especially the small…

> I also don't trust handing "identity token" over to that site any more than I trust Facebook. What happens if/when they get hacked? Will they then have my bank card details? Will…

This was a motivating factor for us. If a market solution doesn't appear and remedy the problem, then we'll get government regulation.

agreed. The incentives of the business model need to align with the goals of protecting privacy and keeping fake accounts to a minimum.

Yes I am affiliated. I'm arguing why we built RealPeople.io and RealPerson.io to solve the problems listed in the article. I don't think I've tried to hide that.

At first maybe for most people they won't want to pay the cost. What (hopefully) will happen is that smaller sites who have problems keeping bots and fake accounts at bay will deci…

> I also don't think it's possible to prevent bad actors from automation while allowing the good actors to do the same things on the cheap. The problem is the same controls that ar…

There were some bad actors in the 90s, but the scale is different now. And the effect is now raised to the level of concern that elections are affected. Some people are even talkin…

Right. Bots aren't going to pay. But a user might pay $9/year for all websites. Websites don't have to pay for the service either. The more websites that use the service, the more …

It doesn't really guarantee uniqueness. It also doesn't verify identity (that this is really "John Smith"). It essentially verifies that the user has paid for an account on RealPer…

I agree that having a few walled gardens is a problem, but having more smaller walled gardens probably won't change much. Bad actors can still sign up, post, spam, harass, etc. on …

What if there were a trusted third-party that periodically audited the business to see if they were protecting your privacy of not. Would people value or trust that? And who would …

What if there were paid services that promised no ads? Ever? Make it part of their policy?

Exactly why RealPeople.io ( https://realpeople.io ) was created. The business model of using targeted advertising needs to go away. With ads, platforms have the incentive to sell u…

Rather than banning it, why not support platforms that don't use ads? RealPeople.io doesn't have ads, or allow third parties access to any data. No bots, no AI either. Users pay to…

Like some other commenters here. Like the rules would cascade down similar to css. You might think that a read rule on a parent node would apply to a child unless that child overro…

This was a different way of thinking about security rules for us. But basically you have to make everything not readable and not writable at the root and then open up access farthe…