Comment by palata
5 hours ago
If it is possible to "pretend that they want something reasonable", it means that there is something reasonable somewhere.
Maybe some want more control, but most certainly not everybody.
> so that pervasive monitoring
If you haven't gotten the memo, pervasive monitoring already exists. To sell ads.
> or permission and/or deanonymization is normalized
For age verification, it's possible to do it in a privacy-preserving manner. Now people spend their time complaining about the idea and claiming that all who disagree are extremists, so it doesn't help. But we could instead try to push for privacy-preserving age verification.
guy on website called hackernews, tries to convince everyone more restrictions are good
As a hacker, I want antitrust to break TooBigTech such that they can't cryptographically lock me out of everything.
Those who want less regulation are not hackers, but rich and powerful assholes.
Hey, I'm not rich and powerful, how dare you.
Regulations are also restrictions, lots of people here are pro regulation when it comes to things they don't like.
This topic is just unfavorable with this community... for good reasons.
Website called "Hacker News" has had zilch to do with the Hacking community for almost a decade now. It's VC and corporate apologist news.
Are you calling me a corporate apologist? For one, corporations want less regulation.
"Being a hacker" does not mean "being stuck in the 80s", IMO. If TooBigTech cryptographically controls everything, it becomes harder to hack. Are you aware that the biggest restriction against jailbreaking stuff is that it was made super illegal... because it helps corporations?
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