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That would make the (largely hypothetical) problem of deepfaked news far far worse. It's the same problem we see with TLS where a green lock just means people's
by furi 8y ago
That would make the (largely hypothetical) problem of deepfaked news far far worse. It's the same problem we see with TLS where a green lock just means people's brains turn off. "It must be tied to a real person's ID" is trivial for anybody determined to bypass (they can just steal, forge or make an ID) but when people view it they will see that it's been verified by the government's big brother identity system, so it must be legitimate. It's literally arming the bad guys with the tools to make their fakes look government endorsed.
- paul7986 8y agoYes I understand security concerns thus you are forced to verify yourself via your retina and thumbprints.
- furi 8y agoStill absolutely trivial for a state level actor to bypass, aka: the exact people you really don't want creating fake news that looks government endorsed.
- kazinator 8y agoActual government-endorsed would never be fake, of course.
- UncleEntity 8y agoYep, we'll have to make sure that the only place internets posting can take place is in person at the Department of Right Thinking until you have a high enough social score to be trusted. Because that's what all this is really about.
- GekkePrutser 8y agoExactly. Look for China as an example where this is already happening today.
- pavel_lishin 8y agoVia what device? A government-produced one? Or will it be a free-for-all, with Google, Alexa, and countless off-the-books Chinese factories producing competing products that you'll be buying on Alexa - that will surely be unhackable, no sir!