There is no "creep" to be found here, this is just the direct consequence of casually endorsing the kinds of ideologies like "the internet is fundamentally bad and we should restrict children from social media".
There is no slippery slope here, we already dived off the cliff it is just idiots are now beginning to realize they were cheering for jumping off of a literal cliff.
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???
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.
Or physical address.
Time for everyone to adopt uncensorable mesh networks for texting
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.
You know, that "sweet summer child" shit is condescending and unnecessary. Maybe don't be a jerk to people
It is like aposematic coloration: It lets us know we don't have to bother reading the rest of the comment.
Yes I’m aware there are countermeasures.
Who would have thought. I am surprised that they drop their masks that fast, though.
Who didn't see that coming a mile away with flashing lights