Sounds like a complete BS. Basically what haters want to hear.

Bad working conditions ect. would be believable, but this is just too sensationalist to take at the face value

Cyberpunk 2077. My second playthrough. First one with ver. 1.0 and it was painful

You know, fighting isn't everything. OP character can work if writer puts an actual effort into it. Look at One Punch Man or Overlord. Completely overpowered characters can be written well. It's just that you can't focus story on fights alone.

Is this south park or is this a real life?

According to Reporting From Ukraine, they breached 2nd line as well:

https://youtu.be/R4fN727rNao?si=2ZQdq4KT0ETCLoKh

It’s stealing work in a way that functionally launders it

Actually in the age of basically permanent copyrigt, this brings at least some balance

And it sells like fresh cookies

Actually this isn't much different from extreme control over financial transactions in civilzed parts of the world. Rather it's just natural extension of that control, which is scary

It doesn't have to be decentralized, it has to be anonymous. You want to have an online identity in the number of one per citizen, but not tied to the real identities.

There's a way to do this by using regular digital ID and anonymizing it with zero-knowledge cryptography, but AFAIK noone tried this yet

Remember: If you're not doing anything bad, you have nothing to hide! Cryptocurrencies and VPNs are used only by criminals xD

AI porn to the rescue. With locally installed toolkit, you can spam this shit by the thousands :D