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In some places, the mask of this being a child-pornography problem is falling down already, see [^1]. The Swedish Social Democrats, which is the biggest political party in Sweden, wants for everybody to use their IDs to comment in social media just so that the party can wage their electoral war.

[^1]: https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/swedens-socia...

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This legislation confuses me. Why would a party /its lobbyists care about trolling? It seems that a greater effect would be that sockpuppet accounts can no longer be used. Wouldn't this represent a loss to authoritarians?

e.g. ones who openly conduct psychological operations on their own citizens:

https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/article/explainer/...

Reading the article it isn't just that though, privacy problematic as it is, troll accounts spreading misinformation is an issue, especially for elections, and real weird for one of the major parties to admit to employing against even their supposed allies.

And while that mask fell off, a similarly hard to argue against reason that they bring up is the russian state, which no one here likes, so it isn't like they actually pulled off the mask, just swapped it for something almost equal, assuming they stick to that reason.

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