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You need to submit a copy of your driver's license for a FB account these days??
by fullshark 6y ago
You need to submit a copy of your driver's license for a FB account these days??
- rement 6y agoIf that is the case it would be harder to get a FB account than to vote in some states...
- malcolmgreaves 6y agoWhat do you mean? Are you aware of a long history, and continued attempts today, of voter disenfranchisement in the US?
- rement 6y agoI am but I am also aware that a functioning democracy requires that the people trust the polls. And one piece of that is verifying that those who vote are who they say they are (and are citizens of the country they are voting in).
- malcolmgreaves 6y agoSo you're in favor of zero cost licenses and zero cost delivery of said licenses. If your means of identification or authorization to vote aren't free, then you're advocating for a pool tax, which is illegal. I'm not sure if you realize that there's only a handful of confirmed cases of voter fraud in the US in decades. The current system, based upon an address registration and someone confirming their information at the polling place, has achieved this result.
- InitialLastName 6y agoIt's almost like having access to a company's services is less essential than having a hand in your society's decision-making mechanism.
- soulofmischief 6y agoWhat happens when we privatize voting, too?
- InitialLastName 6y agoA further sacrifice of the needs of the people in favor of the whims of our corporate overlords? You don't even really need to vote; Facebook already knows you want to vote for Mark.
- vkou 6y agoWe will get something that will look like the 2020 election.
- rement 6y agoIt's almost as though Facebook understands how important it is to verify you are who you say you are. A simple verification to certify that those in their system are authentic.
- avolcano 6y agoFacebook has a policy where they can arbitrarily ban you for failing to "prove your identity" if they believe your account does not use "the name you go by in real life." One of the ways they ask you to prove your identity is to send in a license. Unsurprisingly, this ends up hurting all sorts of people who do not use their legal names online: people who have just chosen other names, people who want to avoid being targeted or stalked, trans people, etc. They've updated this policy to allow for some of these situations (https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/facebook-real-names-1.3367403 https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/facebook-real-names-1.336...) but folks still get banned for failing to comply.
- rochak 6y agoMan, where is the world of anonymity that I loved?
- Freak_NL 6y agoAs soon as someone manages to get your account flagged as possibly using a fake name I think.