• AggressivelyPassive@feddit.de
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        8 months ago

        It’s a tool to oppress dissent.

        Realistically, you can’t enforce the law, but if you find an anonymous account for anything on someone’s phone or laptop, you can easily arrest or fine them.

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          It’s because if someone says a mean thing about them or their views online, they want to be able to identify them and direct stochastic terrorism towards them.

          They want to go back to an America where even though a shit ton of white people hated the KKK, no one would say it publicly because then you were their biggest target as a “race traitor”.

          Because that’s the only way to get people to stop pointing out how mind-blowingly stupid their ideas are.

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      Create laws for social media sites to validate identity or force them through something like login.gov with il2 verification. More and more federal services are starting to use them for managed identity.

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      8 months ago

      Great question!

      A National internet ID of course!

      it might be called a Crypto-quantum-cyber-safety-passcode and you’ll need to use it in any site that collects and stores data about you. It will be for your safety!

      /s
      
      Speaking of...
      
      Has it ever been explored to pen a modern day update similar to , or to  the constitution (amendment)?
      
      (It would add new things) which could  prevent future stupid laws and the encroachment of individual privacy and how other entities can collect, store, use and sell one's data and metadata they create. It would also avoid wasting of resources..
      
      
      I'm sure there are other modern things today that the founding fathers could never  have imagined at the time  - but you better believe they would have included if they had the slightest idea!
      
      The tough part is that it would need to be well thought out and reasonable (and practical) 
      
      
      Otherwise, it will always be a knee jerk defensive reaction to all this nonsense all the time. It's exhausting and a waste of $