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Twitch is requiring new affiliates to give their government ID and a separate photo to Persona (bsky.app)
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[–] Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 15 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.