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Re:FTC Announces Proposed Rule Banning Fake Reviews and Test... by paul7986 on Friday June 30, 2023 @06:03PM (#36543024)
Always thought there should be a public identity system on the Internet in which your own Internet reputation is at stake like your eBay score. It could be attached to your credit score and if found out your a liar and faker (for any type of personal gain) your Internet identity and credit score takes a hit. Also, You are only able to ever get one just like you are only able to get a social security card and your score/Internet identity follows you around everywhere you go.

Just a thought to clean up all the fake crap that litters the Internet.

Now with this idea you could still post anonymously it just wouldnt hold as much weight.

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Re:FTC Announces Proposed Rule Banning Fake Reviews and Test... by JohnFen on Friday June 30, 2023 @06:09PM (#36543122)
That's just nopes all the way down for me. It would certainly keep me off of the web entirely (which might not be the worst thing, admittedly).

I'd much rather put up with the fake crap.

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Re:FTC Announces Proposed Rule Banning Fake Reviews and Test... by paul7986 on Friday June 30, 2023 @06:16PM (#36543206)
How would that keep you off the Internet? You can still post anonymously.
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Re:FTC Announces Proposed Rule Banning Fake Reviews and Test... by JohnFen on Friday June 30, 2023 @06:44PM (#36543529)
It'd keep me off the web, not off the internet.

If participation is optional, then why would anyone participate? To be effective, it has to be mandatory in some way, be it contractually, legally, or socially.

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Re:FTC Announces Proposed Rule Banning Fake Reviews and Test... by paul7986 on Saturday July 01, 2023 @01:33AM (#36546946)
It might make people be more authentic and real as positive commerce fake reviews is the issue at hand. If im using my U.S. public Internet reputation ID to leave a review then it one says Im in the U.S.(not a foreigner) as ive been granted such an ID in the U.S. and two people would be more prone to be nice. While the negative comments would be in the majority anonymous I'm betting. Though anonymous comments would not hold as much weight but still been seen.

As for an incentive in time especially if a small to mid-size portion of Internet citizens are sick of all the fakeness and start using their Internet public reputation ID then it becomes a societal push.

I think such is needed even more so for all the deepfakes that may proliferate the Internet in the next few years or more. If that becomes a huge problem of really Internet citizens figuring out what is what then maybe that starts the societal push with government offering it but not ever pushing it.

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Re:FTC Announces Proposed Rule Banning Fake Reviews and Test... by lost_tourist on Saturday July 01, 2023 @03:50AM (#36547783)
no one is going to sign a legal contract so that they can review crap they bought on Amazon.
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Re:FTC Announces Proposed Rule Banning Fake Reviews and Test... by loeg on Friday June 30, 2023 @06:04PM (#36543043)
You could call it a Social credit system.
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