Same. The consolidation of departments and powers into the new Department of Homeland Affairs under the current incumbency has been an ominous kind of creep tow

Same. The consolidation of departments and powers into the new Department of Homeland Affairs under the current incumbency has been an ominous kind of creep towards it too. It feels inevitable that there will be support for this move from the talking-heads who are currently inciting freedumb protests, because either Terrorism or Think Of The Children. On online identities linked to passports - the US already asks this kind of in visa / ESTA applications [0]. It’s not currently mandatory to answer, but I get the impression that’ll change. It’s hard to believe the line that any of this is directed to reducing online bullying, if anything it makes doxxing trivial. Law enforcement already has powers by warrant to do much of what this contemplates, and the rest is not somewhere I want Peter Dutton et al to be able to see. [0] https://www.esta-online.com/blogs/esta-social-media-question https://www.esta-online.com/blogs/esta-social-media-question