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It is much bigger. This is the strategy for closing the last bastion of democracy on the anonymous freedom internet. By normalizing identification, it sets the legal precedent needed to force it upon everyone. Normalizing the behavior in the idiot South means they will fall in line like the zombies they stereotypically are when the main legislation is pushed through.