• kitnaht@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    The problem with paid account creation is it literally links your real-world identity to your online identity. That’s the WHOLE purpose of it for Microsoft, they want to know who you are. Don’t even start with crypto either, it’s not anonymous.

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      1 month ago

      See that’s the thing, if your real world identity becomes linked to the account, then creating ban evasion accounts means literally having to get a new identity. Again, we see more layers of effort that have to be crossed for the intention of being able to harass someone who blocked you.

      The point isn’t to be perfect, it’s to make breaching so annoyingly time and resource consuming that all but state actors who are REALLY determined will bounce off and just go do something else with their time.