[Barrin92]

For Facebook or TikTok it's a sensible move because they are social networks trying to connect natural persons. Not just child protection as mentioned in the article but ecommerce scams, misinformation, catfishing or botting would be cut down if you could verify that the online identity represents who it claims it does.

It would be good though if there is some identity standard across platforms rather than the existing patchwork solutions that exclude people without say, credit cards. Digital ID systems like in South Korea or Taiwan seem good because they're uniform across the country and comparable to national ids.

[encryptluks2]

What you are suggesting wouldn't help improve those situations, and in fact will likely make them worse. Governments and companies have been historically bad at protecting information. Companies will see it as an opportunity, governments will abuse it and the user will end up just having more information online for people to use against them. So called misinformation will change in definition to only support government-approved talking points. Before you know it, disagreeing with your government and pointing out lies will just cause them to say they have a reason now to use the information you provided to go after you and try to ruin your life. Employees and government agents will now have a plethora of more data to do lookups on their exes, enemies, etc. It is bad all around.

[sofixa]

That's a slippery slope argument if I've ever seen one.