← Back to context Comment by nly 11 hours ago Alternative title: ID verification to be required for all UK citizens to use social media 7 comments nly Reply jonplackett 11 hours ago Well I needed a good reason to quit social media. This can be it. stavros 11 hours ago He posted, on a social media website. demorro 7 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 11 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. 1 reply → like_any_other 11 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 11 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 11 hours ago Well I needed a good reason to quit social media. This can be it. stavros 11 hours ago He posted, on a social media website. demorro 7 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 11 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. 1 reply →
stavros 11 hours ago He posted, on a social media website. demorro 7 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 11 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. 1 reply →
demorro 7 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 11 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. 1 reply →
like_any_other 11 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 11 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.
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.
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.
1 reply →
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.