This is just hog wash.

They are buying it for 60bn worth of SPCX Class A stock. This is Cursor’s board taking anything they can get for a company that has no future. Not a criticism against Cursor, but their market is standardising on Claude Code, and their value would rapidly head towards zero.

Class A stock has no voting rights. This is the investors of Cursor literally saying “being on Musk’s train to the moon is literally better than whatever future we have right now”.

If we’d stayed in the EU it would have been a legal requirement to employ ZKP.

Myeah, sure, maybe, maybe not. But whatever the source, anonymity does enable well-resourced actors to affect opinion change.

It is possible to create anonymous age verification. I doubt the UK will pursue, but it is possible. Check out what Denmark did.

We ban alcohol, violent films, lottery tickets, over the counter medicine for children and not for adults.

Age verification and identification is not the same thing.

I think there’s a rational argument for saying anonymous social media is what Russia, China and other dictatorships use to undermine and affect public opinion, to be fair.

I’m not saying therefore anonymity shouldn’t be allowed. I’m just saying there’s a nuance here…

And guns! Making them illegal did nothing for people using guns to murder each other!

… oh wait.

All social media is designed to be addictive, though. It’s their entire business model.