Not if you are constantly attacked by millions of scammers, bot nets and government-sponsored info-terrorists.
Same people that complain in this post about over-jealous verification, will complain in another post about misinformation and propaganda.
Same people that complain in this post about over-jealous verification, will complain in another post about misinformation and propaganda.
If they cannot adequately protect against these scenarios they really should not be trying to collect and monetize so much granular user data. Clearly the organization is incapable of operating what they have built.
The reality, IMO, is that it is just not financially worthwhile for them to give a shit. People will jump through hoops for stupid validation purposes because they want access. Why spend engineering time solving a problem that is more easily handled by inconveniencing your users.
A bit tangential but actually I suspect those are nearly disjoint sets. In my experience the people who complain about misinformation and propaganda are okay with identity verification and censorship while those that want privacy (such as myself) typically dislike censorship and don't want a central authority getting involved to judge whether something is misinformation.
It largely comes down to trust in authority and centralized versus decentralized system design.