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Zero2122  ·  2590 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: ‘The New Internet’ Will Be Authentic and Reliable

    The users need to create an account in this new internet and sign up with their Driving License and the social media accounts.

Is this for battling trolls and cyberbullies or for more effective targeted advertising? Anything on the internet that wants my Driver's License and/or ID can honestly fuck right off. And anything that requires me to be constantly signed into social media accounts that track your activity across the web can do the same.

Remember when people were freaking out over the revelations of just how much access to your information organisations like the NSA have? And now this is supposed to be a good thing?

If this becomes some sort of standard I would like to say that it would cause a lot of dissent but judging by the amount of people that are perfectly happy providing Facebook with their personal details, phone number, home address, a list of friends and every event that you attend and who with, I doubt it sadly.

Welcome to world of zombies raised by Facebook and iPhones. Instead of teaching people that the world is a harsh place and giving them the skills to deal with it, lets create echo chambers where no one can ever grow or learn. Instead of having examples of the good and the ugly to learn from, lets censor anything that doesn't tow the line so that the poor babies will be safe from having their fragile spirits broken. Instead of keeping the internet free and neutral, lets regulate the shit out of it and put a barcode on every user.

It's pathetic. The 'left' used to be pro choice and anti censorship. Now it is being turned into a joke by the weakest generation of all time. No need for governments or corporations to exert power over us, we now censor ourselves and openly welcome regulations that turn our lives into an Orwellian/Minority Report fuck up. But as long as it stops a few trolls, I guess its okay.