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'Anonymity Online Is Going to Die': What Age-Verification Laws Could Look Like in the U.S.
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So just doomerism. Frankly, that's not useful, and all you're doing is helping the powerful by spreading it.
You're delusional if you think that this is doomerism. And you're actually proving my point. Just like I can't influence you, you can't influence anyone else either. The difference between us is that I'm aware of it while you aren't.
People absolutely influence each other. On the rate of a couple lemmy comments its marginally tiny. But they do.
At risk of sounding cliché, we live in a society.
And heirarchy in not inevitable. The kind of social stratification we see today has only been around roughly 10’000 years. Which is nothing in the grand scheme, in evolutionary time.
For most of human history, human relationships underwent far more egalitarian structure.