u/LasagnaCat83

My online store and website have been completely broken since this "migration" took effect. My website is showing products I don't want it to show, products that had been unlisted for months and entirely deleted several weeks ago. My blog is no longer showing up. When I open it up in the site editor it's showing me that same website I've had running for about a year now but when I go to the domain, none of it's actually working and no one can buy my products. But godaddy is still charging me for their "e-commerce solutions" even though they broke my website.

I've tried taking it down and republishing it. I've tried removing all products from the store and re-adding them. Nothing actually works and none of the changes are reflected on my website.

All of this worked perfectly for at least a year and then it all broke after GoDaddy's back-end migration.

I don't believe in the "age-verification" narrative.

I think we're seeing social media go through the same change that's destroyed nearly every online platform known for facilitating fraud: KYC.

Financial institutions are required to know who they are doing business with and these rules/laws/policies are collectively known as "Know Your Customer". If you are processing/delivering payments or facilitating e-commerce then the govt expects you to know who you're doing business with.

For at least a decade now, Facebook has been facilitating widespread financial crimes and when confronted by prosecutors, they would claim to have no information on who actually ran the account, all while Facebook is simultaneously getting caught aggressively tracking users and non-users in illegal ways. Well, the regulatory arbitrage is over. Running a criminal conspiracy through a social media platform doesn't make it legal.

Facebook wants to keep processing payments from advertisers but since a huge portion of those advertisers are selling something illegal or running a scam, none of them are going to be able to comply with KYC rules. When these rules are instituted, it won't lead to a massive number of people scanning their ID's, it's going to lead to 90% of the accounts on social media immediately going dormant and none of the platforms are going to be willing to explain why.

Personally, I can't wait for the collapse of social media and the adoption of KYC is going to do just that.

If these platforms were still just facilitating communication between users, then none of this would make sense. But Facebook, Google, Apple, Twitter, Twitch, Amazon, etc... all want to run massive financial institutions and that requires reasonable oversight and KYC has always been part of that.