Comment by add-sub-mul-div
16 days ago
The loss of all anonymity and privacy on the internet is much worse than this generation's version of the "won't someone think of the children" scare. It's wild how many people are eating this up.
16 days ago
The loss of all anonymity and privacy on the internet is much worse than this generation's version of the "won't someone think of the children" scare. It's wild how many people are eating this up.
I’m not suggesting “upload an id”. I’m suggesting ban all these brain slugs outright.
Make META a criminal organization. Put Zuckerberg behind bars.
Yes we should give the government more power and put up “The Great American Firewall” so Americans can’t use any foreign Facebook like companies.
I didn't respond to the suggestion of absolute prohibition because it's too ridiculous a concept to take seriously.
It's the only reasonable thing to do; the status quo is what's ridiculous.
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So you chose to respond to something they didn't say instead? Weird tack.
If I host a personal server with a Facebook-like app for myself and a few friends, at which point do I go behind bars in your brave new world?
Do you disagree with the first amendment? That's fine, just get it repealed first.
Louis Rossmann had a vid about this and it's much more than jut anonimity, it's about protecting yourself from being exploited by algorithms. Can go as far as influencing your political voting, or who knows what else.
Does tiktok have good intentions keeping your hooked all day on end?
The one (teenage verification for specific services such as social media) does not require the other (require uploading ids to every site on the internet). For one, the scope is limited and secondly, there must be different schemes possible.
Who cares? What exactly is lost. Personally I’m not going to give them my ID, I’m just going to stop using those parts of the internet.
> "won't someone think of the children" scare
Pretending that's what the anti-social media stance is, is hilariously dishonest.
Anyone pretending there is any anonymity and privacy to protect on the internet, right now, has their head in the sand, especially if they use social media.