The Internet age verification nightmare
Democrats and Republicans alike, via bipartisan federal legislation,
are pushing for an Internet where EVERYONE has to be fully identified
via government ID to use social media (and that we can be sure will
only be the starting point, expanding to anything "not suitable for
children" in short order. And of course, that's what any politician
declares it to be).
Despite claimed safeguards, the identify information is bound to be
correlated between sites, eliminating any kind of compartmentalization
between the different kinds of sites you use. Make a comment on a tech
site? Ask a question on a medical site? It will all be brought
together into your government profile eventually, because of the
government ID requirements. And eventually it will be hacked and
leaked.
Many people are missing the insidiousness of these legislative
pushes -- a federal one now being heavily promoted in TV ads -- because they
usually frame their arguments in terms of requiring parents to give
permission for children to use social media, authenticated by
government ID proof of age.
But in order to do this, EVERYONE has to be required to use those
government IDs for access, even adults who don't have or never have
had children. Otherwise, there's no way to prove that any given
account creation request isn't being made by a child.
It's bad. Very very bad. And both parties are complicit. -L
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--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein
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