Protecting children online is crucial, but forcing every user to hand over their ID is a privacy nightmare waiting to happen, according to the head of the Swiss privacy firm
The person you’re replying to is not a serious person. See below where they questioned whether we “need or are entitled to” a decentralized internet infrastructure…
They clearly don’t understand ISPs, and they seem to think their VPN and peer-to-peer networks would still work if the government decided to intervene by shutting down VPN and proxy servers, or if their ISP decided to throttle any connection it couldn’t fully analyze and link to a verified identity.
And then they told me that I should join the brownshirts… for… discussing the need for decentralized infrastructure? They seemed to assume I only want that so I can watch youtube and play games, which is kind of weird. But the weirdest part is that they were virtue signaling about “persecuted people” and “dissidents,” as if a decentralized infrastructure wouldn’t directly benefit those groups…
The person you’re replying to is not a serious person. See below where they questioned whether we “need or are entitled to” a decentralized internet infrastructure…
They clearly don’t understand ISPs, and they seem to think their VPN and peer-to-peer networks would still work if the government decided to intervene by shutting down VPN and proxy servers, or if their ISP decided to throttle any connection it couldn’t fully analyze and link to a verified identity.
And then they told me that I should join the brownshirts… for… discussing the need for decentralized infrastructure? They seemed to assume I only want that so I can watch youtube and play games, which is kind of weird. But the weirdest part is that they were virtue signaling about “persecuted people” and “dissidents,” as if a decentralized infrastructure wouldn’t directly benefit those groups…