# X’s New Feature Reveals Why Trust & Safety Work Was Never About The ‘Censorship Industrial Complex’ | Techdirt

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## What Jamie wrote

I have so many thoughts related to this article. Should identity verification be required online? I do not think so. Should your location, even just your country, be revealed? I don't know. How do we know accounts are not bots attempting to influence us? That is impossible now. However, the part that isn't complicated is to focus on simple explanations and follow the money. If economic incentives exist, they will be exercised particularly when you have global reach. Perhaps this is less surprising to me because it is so common in crypto.

Two data points that I would argue are facts.

- If gaining an audience can generate income at any amount, actions will be taken to create audience independent of any value for that audience.
- Creating and spreading information digitally is incredibly cheap and requires very little return to justify the costs.

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