It was a very tonedeaf take, that's why. Most of the internet is concentrated in the top 100 websites, and 80% of them would not be affected by this law. So you'll still see plenty of bots on Youtube, Discord, Reddit, news sites, and so on.

Blogs with a few comments would go from 5 real commenters to 0 or 1. This does not get the desired result.

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secondly, I assure you there's plenty of classic spam on servers that don't have good moderation. pre-AI spam never disappeared.