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“Corporations want a way to verify the humanity of users” is a simple answer.

“Governments want a way to easily prosecute users” is also a simple answer.

I don’t see why it can’t be all of these things. There is actually a more complicated answer that I didn’t bring up, which is that smaller websites will have a hard time complying with ID laws, which gives preferential treatment to large websites. That locks out potential competition, hinders smaller projects like lemmy or mastodon, and helps secure the current social media monopolies.

That one might just be a useful side effect, rather than the intentional outcome.

They also want a reliable way to differentiate between chatbots and real users, because advertising isn’t very effective on chatbots.

But also, one benefit of ID laws for the government is that it makes court proceedings much faster and cheaper. Sure, they’re tracking everyone online, but a lot of that information is locked behind procedure. By just requiring ID to log in they can sidestep the procedures, because they can just ask corporations nicely for ID information and they’ll eagerly comply.

It’s absolutely worth mentioning that they are coordinated enough to all meet up to discuss their plans for us. If this was a fringe idea it wouldn’t go anywhere, everyone is ready to consider the idea even if they still need to be convinced to implement it.

Do you think it doesn’t require coordination to have a meeting? Without coordination, no one shows up.

The coordination is already happening and after this it will likely increase.

The headline literally says that Macron is pushing for a coordinated approach with the rest of the EU. From the article; “The main goal is to ​act in ​a ⁠coordinated manner and push the European Commission, ​in the positive sense ​of ⁠the term, to move ahead at the same pace ⁠as ​member states.” I’m not particularly sure why you’re dismissing this as conspiratorial. It’s just out in the open.

We’re talking about exploration. Satellites aren’t exploring anything, they’re basically just infrastructure.

As is depicted in the OP’s picture, I’m specifically talking about sending humans to space, and additionally, using them to explore deeper into space. It’s mostly pointless as anything other than a propaganda tool. Anything that can be discovered by sending humans out in space can be discovered by humans on Earth.

The space station might need humans on it to maintain it, but again, the station isn’t exploring anything.

It’s great propaganda.

That’s about it.

Don’t get me wrong, propaganda isn’t inherently bad or anything, you just need to consider how the propaganda is being used.

The cost of living is inflated by retail speculation and landlords, not whatever you think is happening.