[Gigachad]

The future will probably be every online account being tied to some government issues ID. It could even be done in a reasonably privacy protecting way so you don’t know _who_ the person is but you do know it is associated with a real person and they only have one account.

This is sort of how phone numbers are getting used now.

[Engineering-MD]

However, there is no way in hell the government would implement a privacy preserving manner, it is way too useful to have it linked to your identity. I’m such a future every opinion you have a comment made will be known by the government (+/- any third worries they wish to share it with). An authoritarian governments dream and a dystopian future for me.