• hector@lemmy.today
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    23 hours ago

    Identifying every account, every ip address, with an ID and likeness, will absolutely lead to everything you do or say being recorded, and indeed is the point of these age restrictions. You can give all of the reasonings for why chat control will not surrender privacy, or age controls, but that is the entire point behind doing these, to lock down the internet. Everything you do or say will be connected to your accounts, and it will affect everything you are allowed to see online, whether you get that job, whether you get police scrutiny, how the courts treat you, etc.

    Those comments you make on Israel, climate change, environmental issues, the first amongst the issues to secretly effect how you are treated.

    It’s not now nor has it ever been about protecting kids. Past generations knew that, our generation trusts the suits that tell them what you just said, there is no way for anyone to know, the information is totally secure and not being saved, trust us. Because if you can’t trust the government, who can you trust? (Me, don’t do it, it’s a trap.)

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      21 hours ago

      Besides the fact that nearly very single account on all major social media is already identified, you are also conflating age verification with identification. Age verification can be anonymous but it depends on the implementation.

      IP addresses are already linked to your identity. Or does your ISP not know who to bill every month? It’s just they’re not known to the government until a warrant is provided.

      Who would you rather trust? Foreign social media companies controlled by hostile governments trying to turn your country fascist or your own government?

      • hector@lemmy.today
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        18 hours ago

        All accounts on social media are not identified at all, especially not with likeness from selfie videos and government ID. And there is a difference between the isp having that information, and palantir having it, which is the crux of this whole matter. That is the point to this, giving these ai companies the ability to run everything you say or do or look at through ai threat detection.

        It’s a trojan horse, and you are telling us don’t worry they couldn’t fit those guys in there, they did though, that’s the entire reason they left it out there, and that’s the truth.