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> Where I live you have to register your legal name and have it attached to the SIM card. This isn’t true everywhere, and phone numbers work internationally. I
by Shank 5y ago
> Where I live you have to register your legal name and have it attached to the SIM card.
This isn’t true everywhere, and phone numbers work internationally. I’ve got a Weibo account with a +1 US phone number and it works (surprisingly). The problem with the phone number system is that quite honestly, it’s only not anonymous in cities/states/countries that make it closely linked to identity.
- FourthProtocol 5y agoAnd even then there are levels of gray - I registered on Facebook in 2007 with my real phone number. I changed providers soon after, and no longer have that number. But it's still the number Facebook have for me. I now (and many of my friends) have a pay-as-you-go SIM for anything (including parcel delivery) that want a number.