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Definitely some good points, I hope we as global community find quickly working solutions. Otherwise I fear governments will use it to push digital IDs and make them mandatory to use anything what has plug / battery, the internet etc. this would be a dystopian nightmare.
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There will always be a way. They can make it pretty tricky though.
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Lol, u made me google that.
Yeah, micropayments might work in some cases, in others, maybe deposits; ie instead of paying 8forTwitterpermonth,aoneātime20 deposit you can get back at any time, but you could lose for spamming. It would be cheaper than 8/moforusersinthelongrun,butmoreexpensivethan8/mo for abusers (since 20ismorethan8).
Or, a "pass" which for a $20 deposit that you can use ANY site. If they wanted, they could do a cryptographic proof that proved you had the pass w/o revealing who you are.
Also, imagine something hashcash-esque. Like 1 tweet would take 50% of your phone's computational power for 1 min. If nothing else, no one could build a bot to do more than 2 spam tweets a minute, considerably reducing unwanted replies.