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Because you can't freely force social networks like HN to tie nicknames to a state IDs. Just because some politician said that doesn't make it so.
by tim333 1y ago
Because you can't freely force social networks like HN to tie nicknames to a state IDs. Just because some politician said that doesn't make it so.
- stavros 1y agoYou can, though. That's what laws are.
- serf 1y agolaws and enforcement are different things. I get your overall point, but conflation of the two is inaccurate.
- stavros 1y agoI agree, but they're highly correlated, so it's not that this doesn't affect anything.
- tim333 1y agoHN is US based. You'll have fun getting a law like that through in the US, or even the UK or EU. They do have a law like that in China I think.
- autoexec 1y agoThere's a lot of things that used to be unthinkable in the US. Things that only evil governments in other (usually communist) countries did, but which now happen in the USA. It turns out there's not as much of a difference as you might think, and not much you can do to change that.
- bergfest 1y agoI don’t know about the US, but in UK and the EU they are certainly trying to do just that. And if not today, the will simply cook us slowly a little longer until they succeed. The problem is, that regular people just don’t care enough.
- elzbardico 1y agoGive it a bit more time.