Comment by nly 13 hours ago Alternative title: ID verification to be required for all UK citizens to use social media 8 comments nly Reply jonplackett 13 hours ago Well I needed a good reason to quit social media. This can be it. stavros 12 hours ago He posted, on a social media website. drnick1 12 hours ago HN is not "social media," in a conventional sense, far from it. For one, it is completely anonymous, at least if you want it to be. 2 replies → demorro 8 hours ago Which was not contradictory, as they were saying they wanted to quit. I also want to quit all social media, including hackernews, in the same way I want to quit eating Mcdonalds and getting high all the time. like_any_other 12 hours ago And as usual, no pro-privacy or pro-freedom groups were asked to give a comment for the article. I guess nobody objects on those grounds! danielrmay 13 hours ago I went back to the UK a few weeks ago for an old friend's wedding, and the ID verification process shocked me.
jonplackett 13 hours ago Well I needed a good reason to quit social media. This can be it. stavros 12 hours ago He posted, on a social media website. drnick1 12 hours ago HN is not "social media," in a conventional sense, far from it. For one, it is completely anonymous, at least if you want it to be. 2 replies → demorro 8 hours ago Which was not contradictory, as they were saying they wanted to quit. I also want to quit all social media, including hackernews, in the same way I want to quit eating Mcdonalds and getting high all the time.
stavros 12 hours ago He posted, on a social media website. drnick1 12 hours ago HN is not "social media," in a conventional sense, far from it. For one, it is completely anonymous, at least if you want it to be. 2 replies → demorro 8 hours ago Which was not contradictory, as they were saying they wanted to quit. I also want to quit all social media, including hackernews, in the same way I want to quit eating Mcdonalds and getting high all the time.
drnick1 12 hours ago HN is not "social media," in a conventional sense, far from it. For one, it is completely anonymous, at least if you want it to be. 2 replies →
demorro 8 hours ago Which was not contradictory, as they were saying they wanted to quit. I also want to quit all social media, including hackernews, in the same way I want to quit eating Mcdonalds and getting high all the time.
like_any_other 12 hours ago And as usual, no pro-privacy or pro-freedom groups were asked to give a comment for the article. I guess nobody objects on those grounds!
danielrmay 13 hours ago I went back to the UK a few weeks ago for an old friend's wedding, and the ID verification process shocked me.
Well I needed a good reason to quit social media. This can be it.
He posted, on a social media website.
HN is not "social media," in a conventional sense, far from it. For one, it is completely anonymous, at least if you want it to be.
2 replies →
Which was not contradictory, as they were saying they wanted to quit. I also want to quit all social media, including hackernews, in the same way I want to quit eating Mcdonalds and getting high all the time.
And as usual, no pro-privacy or pro-freedom groups were asked to give a comment for the article. I guess nobody objects on those grounds!
I went back to the UK a few weeks ago for an old friend's wedding, and the ID verification process shocked me.