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>notice the recent shift towards identification on social media

i think this is more about control. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49036433 (The Home Ministry’s cybercrime arm, the Indian Cybercrime Coordination Centre, has ordered Microsoft subsidiary GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based messaging application Bitchat)

"The notice comes after several users participating in the Jantar Mantar protest were observed using Bluetooth-based messaging apps after the government imposed temporary restrictions on internet services"

The CJP Bitchat takedown notice is standard practice in India - what I meant is ID linking with social media such as ChatControl 2.0, the UK ChatControl proposals, and similar proposals making the rounds in Australia, Canada, and others.

By ID gating it helps reduce social media inflammation such as the Belfast race riots by making it easier to prosecute individuals and locking down access to only humans.