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Age Verification is Now Mutating into General ID (www.freezenet.ca)

submitted 21 hours ago by Gnergy@piefed.europe.pub to c/privacy@sopuli.xyz

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Surveillance creep is once again striking in the age verification debate. This is happening at the FCC this time.

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[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 12 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

Among other sweeping changes, the era of the burner phone could end with the rollout of new “Know Your Customer” rules voted on by the FCC on April 30, as noted by the blog of the D.C. telecom law firm Wiley Rein. Customers would, according to the proposed rules, have to present a government ID, a physical address, a full legal name, and an existing phone number.

Then how the fuck would someone without a phone number get one???

[–] crimson_iris@piefed.social 3 points 12 hours ago

This is like the time (5 minutes ago) when I tried to get help from Ubisoft support with my login problem. To contact support, I had to login.

[–] NOPper@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 19 hours ago

Or physical address.

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Time for everyone to adopt uncensorable mesh networks for texting

[–] deadcream@sopuli.xyz -1 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Oh you sweet summer child. You really have no idea what living under a hostile government actually means. Your "uncensorable" networks work as long as as the state respects people's freedoms and allows them to exist. It's easy to be a "rebel" when you have nothing to fear. An ability to freely exchange and access information is what fascist totalitarian governments fear and fights against the hardest.

They won't even need to break the encryption or censor it or anything. It would just be made illegal, and given that it involves radio transmissions - easily detectable.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 5 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

You know, that "sweet summer child" shit is condescending and unnecessary. Maybe don't be a jerk to people

[–] higgsboson@piefed.social 1 points 6 hours ago

It is like aposematic coloration: It lets us know we don't have to bother reading the rest of the comment.

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago

Yes I’m aware there are countermeasures.