prokopetz:

While it’s true that mandatory identity verification will inevitably be leaked on a massive scale, the thing you need to understand when framing these arguments is that a lot of the folks in favour of such measures don’t see that as a bad thing. Full de-anonymisation of the Internet is their explicit goal. Like, the actual objective here is for everyone to have a public record of everything they say and do – online or otherwise – linked to their government ID. The universal panopticon is the good ending as far as these people are concerned.

but like. Why

Do they not understand that your private data includes your credit card and social security number and stuff

Do they think it is a good thing for literally everybody to be able to withdraw money from literally anybody elses bank account because that sounds very communist and i am pretty sure most of those people do not self identify as communist