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Comment by AnthonyMouse

12 hours ago

When people say things like this, they mean the good parts of the internet, e.g. real people who are able to be honest because a pseudonym allows them to say things they would be punished by evildoers for saying if the evildoers could identify them. Taking that away doesn't get you out of the engagement-optimized ad funnel, it just makes that be the only thing left.

Having a digital ID does not obviate that (in principle), thanks to zero-knowledge schemes.

To my understanding then, the issue is that the EU's implementation only has a ZK-based solution in the plans so far.

But then this initiative says "No Digital ID", not "No Auto-Deanonymizable Digital ID", so...