Post #1479753

2026-02-20 11:02 UTC

@fluffykittycat And here's the thing: the mere existence of a privacy-preserving alternative gives people a much stronger argument against invasive systems. Right now when governments push for identity verification, the response is just "don't do it." If a working ZK-based system exists, the argument becomes "there is no reason to collect identity data - you can verify what you need without it." That's a far harder argument for surveillance states to dismiss.

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@fluffykittycat@furry.engineer 2026-02-20 18:48

@dotfox "The age verification mandates are coming" because they're being pushed from on high. there's no reason we should accept this. why all of a sudden are we expected to hand over or IDs to use the internet? nothing good is intended here furthermore, no one has ever rebutted the obvious flaw in any ZK-based system: how do you know that the ID belongs to the actual user and not someone handing out "Over 18" tokens en mass? I've asked this of people and no one's told me how they plan to stop this discord promised up and down there were being super private and everything was all on device, and that lasted about a week and now your IDs go straight into Peter Thiel's ICE database. if we give in to "zero knowledge" how can we know that won't just happen? no, we have to take a stand against this in it's totality

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