In other news: "Duh."

i want the 90s internet back, when only nerds were on it. it was way better back then.

Loyal Moses has been on about this. Apparently the bills require third party cloud storage of the information in addition to an online requirement (for logging in???), and continuous telemetry to in use apps on the desktop environment.

“Child safety” has simply become the marketing department for a rent-seeking surveillance industry.

Damn ain't that the truth.

Was looking at a used car online. Found a site that had option to 'reserve' the car until paperwork was done. Started innocuously with email and phone info, to text updates. Fine. Then it asked to verify info, with scans of driver's license.

Persona.

Noped right out.

"hiding inside" of it? No no, the whole point is surveillance with full KYC. With the end goal being digital ID and CBDC and social credit scores. What the authorities consider to be correct behavior will earn points and if you so much as breathe a syllable of a question about why they're making you do something you'll lose points and you'll be locked out of things that didn't require an ID to get into before, possibly even access to a grocery store or any other place or service you could get food from

Great article! Some writing cannot be accused of AI-generation... Because it's good.

The Epstein class wants to reliably know who is (and therefore isn't) an adult on the internet.

read part 2

Holy fuck I got about 10 minutes into this can someone do a tldr