You only have to verify ID to monetize. I doubt they care about random commentators.
It's difficult for most people to comprehend how much resources the USA govt, its clients and contractors have for surveillance and various enforcement actions...until it happens to you.
Let me tell you a little tale from the past:
I was a regular poster on an obscure discussion forum, with maybe 20 daily posters and 50 daily readers, when one day, in the off-topic area, I made a brief post about the USS Liberty. This was in 2008.
I know because I went back and looked at the time stamps that a new member of the forum joined and made a post 30 minutes later with a generic "Source?" type of response, followed by a cookie cutter statement of support for our greatest ally. I don't remember every detail perfectly now, 16 years later, but I don't even think I responded to him.
Later that day, or maybe the next day, I got some messages on my facebook account, which I barely used and was not connected to my acct on the discussion forum, where I used an alias and was careful not to reveal much about my ID. After maybe one or two out of the blue, hello how are you type messages to me on FB that also referenced Israel, there was a final message that was very cleverly worded and it also used references to and synonyms for death several times, like the word morte.
It was so crafty and creepy that I wish I'd saved it, but what happened was it scared me because I thought it was from the same person who responded in 30 minutes to my forum post, and was now sort of, kind of threatening to kill me. I didn't take the threat seriously as if my physical safety was really at risk, but it was extremely creepy that this person could contact me this way, especially over something so minor. I think it's likely he/they/whomever scanned my forum posts and got a quick psych profile on me and knew I was susceptible to this kind of thing.
Fast forward a few months and I receive an e-mail from my sister, who is married, uses her husband's name, and does almost nothing online; she barely used e-mail and had no FB. In her out of the blue e-mail to me—she hadn't contacted me by e-mail in like 9 years—she said that a couple of months ago (around the time I was contacted on FB) she received a series of phone calls from different men intimating, but not explicitly stating, that they were from the IRS and that they were looking for me regarding some tax problems I had.
My sister was concerned and asked me in the e-mail what the problem was and how she could help. I was just about to reply in some detail when I realized that I was falling into their scam. I reasoned that they had access to either her or both of our e-mail accounts and we were both on g-mail. They initiated contact with her so that she would do exactly what she did: make a sympathetic offer of help to her (unknown to her) frightened brother, and I would reply to her with confidential info. that would give them ammunition to harass me further or perhaps blackmail me.
All of this over a mild post about the USS Liberty on a discussion forum where it might have been seen by at most 5-10 people.
I assume these contractors operate similarly to confidential informants paid by the police, who receive money when they can put the finger on someone the authorities can use to run through the system, confiscate their resources, and justify the existence of their law enforcement and judiciary positions.
Therefore, although it really defies common sense and any notion of fiduciary responsibility, they do care about small commentators. Harassing, scamming, and railroading them has been monetized by our gargantuan surveillance and enforcement network of LEO's, judges, lawyers, contractors, and at least 5 million others with security clearances, who see us a serfs to be extorted whenever possible.
This message will self destruct in 24 hours, before the gang stalkers can be activated, lol.