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No. This is the absolute wrong direction and would likely help push for a Government Internet ID. This would complete destroy online anonymity.
by bhhaskin 9y ago
No. This is the absolute wrong direction and would likely help push for a Government Internet ID. This would complete destroy online anonymity.
- hnarn 9y agoThe US isn't the world. "Government Internet IDs" already exist, and there is nothing inherent in them existing that eliminates online anonymity, it just removes it on Facebook (which is exactly the point).
- bhhaskin 9y agoImagine having to use your government ID to even connect to the internet. Having all your data logged and cataloged to your ID. At one point in time that is what the US government wanted to do. It starts by normalizing the action. Not a world I want to live in.
- hnarn 9y agoYou're completely de-railing the discussion and trying to respond to this nonsense in any constructive way would only de-rail it further. No amount of strawmen and US-centric "the government wants to enslave us all" propaganda will make me think that the now existing, well working digital ID systems available in the world (not the US) are the work of the illuminati, should be abolished, and/or will be surgically inserted into my brain in the near future. I made a point that there are already ways for Facebook, in certain countries, to verify the identity of their users, if they so please; and that Facebook will never use these because they'd rather control the system of verification themselves (prioritizing profit, not privacy and integrity of users). They could use the systems already in place and say "you know what, the state of Estonia is telling us this guy is who he says he is, we'll accept that". What you're doing is arguing against government-backed digital identification in any broad definition of the term, and you can have that opinion but it's off topic.