I'm having a very hard time with your suggestions. You begin with,
"For starters, comment sections should be siloed or firewalled nationally. Media entities of significance that wish to portray themselves as reputable news media should be required to have a registration with the government. Their comment sections should be limited to an anonymized walled-garden of citizens of our country only."
Which limits the visibility of comments to those who are identifiably citizens. (How often have you seen a comment like, "Things are actually much (better|worse) than what is being reported" on an international story?) Then,
"This suggestion of yours would involve foreign adversaries having to recruit Americans to be traitors in a way that is (A) easily tracked to their personal identity and (B) risks imprisonment. It is true that they could try this method, but I doubt their success. Few people would betray their nation and community in such a transparent way."
You declare anyone who violates that barrier to be a traitor subject to imprisonment.
That seems to me to be, at best, using a sledgehammer as a fly-swatter: it'll do a lot of damage and really won't hurt the fly.
And I say that as someone who is not all that fond of internet anonymity.
"For starters, comment sections should be siloed or firewalled nationally. Media entities of significance that wish to portray themselves as reputable news media should be required to have a registration with the government. Their comment sections should be limited to an anonymized walled-garden of citizens of our country only."
Which limits the visibility of comments to those who are identifiably citizens. (How often have you seen a comment like, "Things are actually much (better|worse) than what is being reported" on an international story?) Then,
"This suggestion of yours would involve foreign adversaries having to recruit Americans to be traitors in a way that is (A) easily tracked to their personal identity and (B) risks imprisonment. It is true that they could try this method, but I doubt their success. Few people would betray their nation and community in such a transparent way."
You declare anyone who violates that barrier to be a traitor subject to imprisonment.
That seems to me to be, at best, using a sledgehammer as a fly-swatter: it'll do a lot of damage and really won't hurt the fly.
And I say that as someone who is not all that fond of internet anonymity.