Damn. Who could possibly have seen this coming?
this post was submitted on 13 May 2026
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The author gives the situation benefit of the doubt that it does not deserve. It is not "mutating" or "creeping;" the ABSOLUTELY INTENTIONAL, ORIGINAL PURPOSE is simply now becoming more and more obvious, even to the people who desperately want to pretend it isn't happening.
Can I preorder my satellite linked shock collar?
Oh look, another attack on the freedom of speech that anonymity allows. Here's hoping "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." - John Gilmore
Many of us will. I will quit before I submit to this.
I'm not defending this shit, I'm of course against it, but a true freedom of speech means you should not need to worry about hiding your identity when saying what you think. The law supposed to protect you from any repercussions from the government.
The fact that we do, means that perhaps freedom of speech was taken from us much earlier than that.
Quite right, there's a scale of freedom of speech and the world is sliding down. The independent media, like newspapers with real journalists went first to the media barons like Murdoch, then we got the internet and some independence returned, along with an anonymous voice for the masses, then facebook et.al. corrupted that independence and controlled the voice with algorithms and network effects, and now this. All downhill.
The law of the government was supposed to protect us from the government... Something tells me that was never going to work in the long term.
That theory pretty much only works for a limited government with a clear separation of powers and some actual accountability.
pretty soon we'll see an official spec for the header X-Current-User-Social-Security-Number
In plaintext
Unmasking itself.
It was never not this.
Who chose the stock image for this? I haven't seen that style of phone since I had an LG Vue back in 2009.
That's the phone you'll have to go back to using, to stop them identifying you. Their AI can't understand tech that old
I'd rather die than use a membrane touch screen again.
It has a sim card and a mac address. You'll be tracked.
It always was going to do this.
Papers are back! As in, "Where are your papers?".
Of course it is
The cost of living in this world is simply resources paid into the arms race.
For me, I focus on what I want out of my tech services. Learn to build and learn to maintain. There will be ways to mask, spoof and anonymize.
And for sure, although it won't be today, there will be legislators who move against this trend. This is, and always has been, a matter of legislation. Separation from church and state is now separation of tech and state.
Also I know we all reasonably hate cryptocurrencies but you will for sure be able to use Monero to buy prepaid phones even after it's illegal, seeing as you can use it to buy illegal guns and drugs now lol
So if it's just illegal from the seller's perspective and not illegal to possess, it'd be a pretty easy law to circumvent.
Still, that won't help the domestic abuse victims and all other people who need burners and aren't tech savvy.
Whoa, so can we stop using our social security numbers for everything yet?
I emaoled my congresswoman about this. I told her not to support it and why; but more importantly, I told her that anyone with the technical acumen will simply not comply with this law.
That's the hidden cost of what orange Shitler has unleashed, the debasement of our public institutions. How powerful is a government that is ignored by its constituents?
always has been.jxl
One does have to wonder which of all the psyops are the three downvoters from. "Totally a Slippery Slope"? "US good China bad"? Israhell? Freeze peach? "Just one more surveillance bro, just the one"?
How unexpected!
not the part of shadowrun i wanted to become reality
Where are the elves?
I am in the EU and after 2027 freedom of speech in big websites will be pretty much over. What measures can i take to protect myself from government censorship other than using decentralized websites like Lemmy?
Just go right for the cattle prod. Have them scan your mark.
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