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> They argue that SIM card regulation could help “disincentivise” online manipulation, and say their tool can be used to test policy interventions the world ove
by mmooss 11mo ago
> They argue that SIM card regulation could help “disincentivise” online manipulation, and say their tool can be used to test policy interventions the world over.
Their solution is to deanonymize communication, which you're probably familiar with. That's not a tool for social good, but for government power. We could give government virtually any power, if we assume it will be used only for good.
What's a solution to online manipulation that is actually a social good or cannot be misused? What's a freedom-promoting technology that can replace the disaster that is current social media?
- msy 11mo agoWe are in a situation where it's a choice between unchecked corporate/oligarchic power or government power, at least the latter is nominally accountable in a democracy.
- DFHippie 11mo agoAnd the unchecked corporate/oligarchic power is often just government power funneled through disposable, if rich, patsies.
- chickensong 11mo agoNo, you can choose to opt-out and DIY your solution. It may not be for everyone, but oh well.
- Seattle3503 11mo agoYeah I don't think we should expect cell networks to secure or protect these third parties.
- giancarlostoro 11mo agoI've become a fan of Passkey instead of worrying about 2-factor, my phone or my Mac is how I authenticate with encryption keys only on my device.
- richwater 11mo agoJust wait until you lose your devices
- giancarlostoro 11mo agoall at once? I find that unlikely
- SV_BubbleTime 11mo agoNo one has ever had a whole house disaster after all!
- giancarlostoro 11mo agoSure, but iCloud still has my entire phone encrypted and will backup restore to a new device, I would imagine my Passkey which is stored in the Passwords app regardless would be fine. Alternatively you can put Passkey in your Bitwarden vault as well.
- rjdj377dhabsn 11mo agoYou don't travel? Easy to have all your devices stolen at once on the street.
- Cthulhu_ 11mo agoBackup codes somewhere safe. I mean if you're traveling and your bank cards or passport gets stolen you're similarly in trouble, but there's a contingency plan for those kinds of things.
- 0ckpuppet 11mo agoor people could just start to realize that social media is junk food and stop eating it.
- cindyllm 11mo ago[dead]
- delis-thumbs-7e 11mo ago>or people could just start to realize that [A] is [B] and stop [C] it. Possible values for A = heroin, alcohol, tobacco, weed, porn, TV… B = addictive, causes cancer, has an effect on brain health, spreads HIV… C = using, consuming, eating, injecting… Seems that this “people realizing” does not seem to work with other highly addictive chemicals or electronic media, since healing oneself from addiction requires far more than just “realizing” it is bad for you and the society. Perhaps there is a reason why we limit by law the sale of tobacco, drugs, alcohol and other highly addictive substances.
- rjdj377dhabsn 11mo agoOr we could start treating people like adults and let them make their own decisions/mistakes.
- lynx97 11mo agoProgressives will never let that happen.
- mmooss 11mo agoIn fact progressives are much more oriented toward freedom than others. They just don't think the powerful need much assistance and instead focus on the freedom of LGBTQ people to make their own decisions about gender and sexuality, the freedom of racial minorities to do what everyone else does, the freedom and opportunity of undocumented, unhoused, and addicted people. Freedom is the heart of progressivism. (I don't subscribe to any group, but HN usually does not understand and mischaracterizes progressivism.)
- port11 11mo agoIt's done little to nothing to stop phone-based scams in European countries. It's unbelievable how many calls and SMS we get with scams, supposedly for SIM cards that require ID (Belgium and France).
- dartharva 11mo agoIndia is one of the countries widely known to be a hub for social media bots. India has also always required buyers to submit their government IDs to buy SIM cards.
- mmooss 11mo agoSo how do they do it? Do all Internet connections require SIMs?
- ivape 11mo agoWe have to solve universal beauty somehow. People like to take part in beauty, so it isn’t fair to admonish it outright as pure vanity. If you stared at the most beautiful people all day what need do you have to survey the world like Quasimodo from the social media bell tower? The Hunchback struggled with an apparent vacancy of physical beauty and the burden of exclusion. He constantly doom scrolled from the tower above looking down. The solution required everyone in town to have a literal fucking epiphany.