Post #2363972

2026-05-10 23:01 UTC

The real reasons platforms want ID is so the government can harass whoever is talking shit and organizing against them. The secondary reason isn’t to distinguish them from bots to show them ads, it’s to coincide with confidence the multiple likely existing profiles of people across multiple platforms, help evade privacy measures like adblocksrs and VPNs. Never be critical again and be a good consumer. We will control all that you see and hear.

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@Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-05-11 10:05

The Snowden Revelations showed that the UK had even more pervasive Civil Society Surveillance than the US, literally levels of surveillance of the public that would make the Stasi in East Germany green with envy. Further, whilst in the US they walked it back a bit after those revelations, in the UK they just passed a law to retroactivelly make all of it legal, newspapers got a bunch of D-Notices (the UK’s censorship mechanism) to shut up and the editor of the newspaper who brought it all out was canned. Even if you know nothing about all the other scandals that have come out over the years around that in the UK (such Green Party MEPs being under surveillance or Environmentalist groups infiltrated by coppers), one’s perspective on why those controlling power in Britan would want to “validate” and gatekeep where people go and what people do online, should at least be informed by what Snowden revealed and how those holder power in Britain dealt with it.

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@Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 2026-05-10 23:30

The fact that the government wants those things is a secondary profit opportunity. Selling ads to real people to fake their earnings is what they really want. Fascism is corporatism.

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