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Twitch is requiring new affiliates to give their government ID and a separate photo to Persona (bsky.app)

submitted 1 day ago by cm0002@lemy.lol to c/privacy@programming.dev

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[–] JakenVeina@midwest.social 38 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Fucking why? Being able to link a bank account for ad payments isn't enough to prove adulthood?

[–] dangling_cat@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I think the whole reason is not “verify you are an adult”. It’s for anti-bot. Bots are too good nowadays. It’s indistinguishable at scale. And bots are bad for advertisers.

[–] Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 day ago

That's one hot take... Advertisers don't care if the streamer is a bot, they care if the viewer is a bot. Mega-corpo's ideal solution is 100% bot streamers and 100% real people viewers.

This isn't age verification, or anti-bot. This is straight up fulfilling surveillance contracts with the US government. They don't even need to justify it, they are holding money hostage instead.

[–] JakenVeina@midwest.social 5 points 1 day ago

Yeah, but this is affiliates we're talking about. There's already plenty of process for proving that affiliatesnare humans, not the least of which is the fact that they STREAM themselves.