Comment by chadsix
1 year ago
It is great that you ask a question, because we live in a world with the freedom to opine on things. What could be considered a massive issue to me may not be a massive issue to another; and if we feel the world will be better by debating our positions, we have the right to do so.
Today, anonymity and pseudonymity exist and allow people to speak freely without risk of backlash for having a different opinion as often times the right opinion may differ with that of social consensus.
If KYC is introduced, the ability to maintain freedom of speech, online, will likely diminish.
This is of negative consequence to the people of the world.
Further, with internet 'forever data', LLM NLP and so forth, character profiles are too easy to develop for people which can cause further harm as we begin segregating based on said profiles.
I believe this KYC requirement can even extend to blockchain node operators and so forth as well.
These are just a few reasons but there are many more.
I'm not in favor of this rule, but it seems to me you are conflating several issues into one without showing the effect of the rule. Can you explain how the rule that would be implemented causes these effects? I do not see the connection here.
This doesn't seem to affect users of internet services, though. It's just IaaS, so things like AWS. With that limited scope, what is the adverse affect of KYC laws on freedom of speech?
It affects all web hosts, so if you want to lease a server in order to install Wordpress or Mastodon you would need to submit your identification to the provider.
I think it effectively affects all web hosts… Certainly how we expect them to work in 2024…
But remember that you can have a perfectly effective web host that simply accepts HTML uploads.
Certainly a tremendous loss of convenience and features but speech itself could still be available under this regime…
How much longer before IaaS platforms require their customers to also have similar KYC policies in their ToS to be able to shift liability downward in case anything goes down?
This law already includes platforms that resell IaaS. So about 4 days.