3 ms·
That sounds like a one-way ticket to a police state.
by willmadden 4y ago
That sounds like a one-way ticket to a police state.
- akerl_ 4y agoYea. To say nothing about the abuses possible if the US was in charge of the account unlocks for American citizens, picture for a moment if the Russian government was responsible for unlocks for Russian users of Google. And then there’s the question of how the heck you scale this if you’re a new company and want to handle unlocks for global users.
- noahtallen 4y agoIt sounds like a one-way ticket to not being frustrated at the government and inadequate, duplicated, pointless state ID processes.
- willmadden 4y agoWhat checks and balances would be in place to prevent government from abusing control of national ID? How long do you think it would be before you were required to provide national ID before creating an account on the major social media outlets, accounts that they would ask the outlets to lock when they don't like the speech (as they literally just did with Twitter)? How long would it be before they used that ID to lock people out of their bank accounts, like they just did in Canada and regularly do in China? How long before you have to present that ID at checkpoints, and they use it to limit your travel, as they would have during the COVID lockdowns? I don't want to live in a police state for the sake of "convenience", and that's exactly what people in power would do if you let them.