That’s the plan. It’s about control.
I’m glad someone else sees it. I feel like I’m taking crazy pills every day lately. People don’t give a single shit, will minimize the danger and do anything they can to give up their rights, time and time again.
A few of us see it, sadly too few to matter.
People in the privacy communities have known this for a while.
But because it’s slightly technical at minimum, and nuanced, and about something not immediately tied directly to people’s financial interest, the average person will never ever know, understand, or care about this.
No shit. Proton is a garbage company though, not to be trusted. But thanks for the assist.
i guess a broken clock can be right. lol
This is the obvious end goal. Never had anything to do with children.
The poor police forces and intelligence agencies can’t firebomb your house when you’re talking bad about the pedo class online without your ID attached.
Billionaires and politicians are people too, you know :'(
The death of anonymity for most people, yes. Not me though. I’m going to make my own internet. With blackjack. And hookers. And protonmail too, probably.
Proton mail is garbage and they will betray you.
Not sure why you’re being downvoted.
Proton CEO praised a Trump admin. I prefer my net neutrality folks to not ever kiss the ring of any government.
The CEO did not praise the Trump administration. He said the Trump administration was doing the bare minimum where the Democrats were not, showing up to the discussion.
It’s not praising the Republicans to say, accurately, what the Republicans and Democrats were doing.
How would one HYPOTHETICALLY get in on this at the ground floor?
Well, are you a blackjack dealer or a hooker?
For the right money, either!
if they want to censor and monitor the internet, its time to start building on a new one that’s private and encrypted by default: https://reticulum.network/
Either that or don’t play by their rules. If I refuse this patch and I can’t connect to a website because of this check, I’ll will just treat that wesite like any other broken website and move on to another one
Isn’t this the company that shutdown someone’s email on behalf of a large organization?
The guy in the picture also endorsed the political party most associated with age verification laws.
But this is Lemmy, where we don’t criticize Proton!
Well it was Mark Zuckerburg who’s made the big push for it… You know, offload responsibility from his platform being addicting and all… Plus, both sides are equally corrupt, so really it’s time to move to something new. Forward, Green, Reform, Libertarian, etc.
Pre-tech phone books were the death of anonymity and no one seemed to care. Now that capitalism has become more refined when extracting coin from the populace, everything has a price.
Pre-tech phone books could be opted out, and they didn’t track your every move, shopping habits and where you were every second of the day.
Now you’re talking sales, not anonymity. But I agree.
If you went to the next town over and had a coffee, no one knew who you were because you were in a phonebook. Your anonymity was intact. With these checks, any website anywhere will know exactly who you are.
Pre-tech phone books were the death of anonymity and no one seemed to care.
Hardly. If I buy a coffee and pay in cash, the phone book does jack shit to identify me. If I meet a neighbour in the city, we have a chat, nobody’s gonna look up our address if they don’t already know us. If I enter a chatroom using an alias, the phone book doesn’t help anyone if they don’t know my real name.
The phone book requires at least one piece of information about me to be useful. The identity control we’re facing is more like everyone requiring my ID to even let me order or chat with someone, basically handing over that piece of information along with every other piece.
And because all of this happens electronically and automatically, it’s far easier to evaluate for mass surveillance or to sell to interested parties than having someone manually check each ID.
