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I'm worried this and other recent developments signal that there will be a major push to practically end anonymity on the Internet over the next couple of years
by supernes 5y ago
I'm worried this and other recent developments signal that there will be a major push to practically end anonymity on the Internet over the next couple of years. Services like Stripe Identity that make it trivial to implement, age gating in the name of "protecting children" from harmful content, real-name policies at account creation time for fighting misinformation and abuse, and more.
It's already here to some extent with the obligation to provide a phone number, but unlike a phone you can't just change your legal identity if you need to. Determined bad actors on the other hand will have no trouble farming ID docs from disadvantaged people to assume their identity online, through coercion or social engineering.
And soon everything you do and say online will have immediate, real-world ramifications.
- 8458e112e7b2 5y agoMaybe. Maybe only on the big-tech "major" platforms. There will likely be a pushback, specially from the "blockchain/crypto" world on pseudonymity [0] [0]: https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1249372482412273668 https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1249372482412273668
- kodisha 5y agoYe, good luck trying to sell/trade your crypto without verifying your self with a photo of your face + passport or driver's license.
- ixacto 5y agoWonder if the is verifiers will be using a gov backend for identity verification? It’s kinda easy to photoshop an ID + passport so these systems can be abused. Could also use a convolutional neural network to generate a new photo.
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- 8458e112e7b2 5y agoThere are ways around this too. [0] [0] https://bisq.network/ https://bisq.network/
- atatatat 5y agoThe EU and Joe Biden just called you a terrorist — now what?
- LargoLasskhyfv 5y agoBe a martyr!1!!