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California State Senator Pushes Bill To Remove Anonymity From Anyone Who Is Influential Online | Techdirt

2024-03-28 17:08:54+00:00

So many problems with this naive concept… and not just the constitutional ones.

This bill would require a large online platform, as defined, to seek to verify the name, telephone number, and email address of an influential user, as defined, by a means chosen by the large online platform and would require the platform to seek to verify the identity of a highly influential user, as defined, by asking to review the highly influential user’s government-issued identification.
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