In the 2000s, online services generally wanted everybody to sign up.
Unresolvable The public record could not settle it.
Factual: Statements about the present or the past, checked against the record: did they hold up?
Reasoning
Vague generalization about online services in the 2000s, too loosely defined to test.
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Balaji Srinivasan, “In the 2000s, online services generally wanted everybody to sign up.” (said 4 July 2022). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_ecb0432d9fd7, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_ecb0432d9fd7
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