It’s a shame really, Porn, Interesting posts labeled as NSFW and NSFW profiles pretty much gone.
They ask you to verify with Persona who they say they keep your information for 3 days
It’s a shame really, Porn, Interesting posts labeled as NSFW and NSFW profiles pretty much gone.
They ask you to verify with Persona who they say they keep your information for 3 days
I don’t get why people are so upset about this, your government already knows every single thing about you anyway, what is the harm in verifying you are you?
Your government knows your ID, address, date of birth, bank information, credit cards, and such, I’m sure you wouldn’t mind giving me all of this information? I need your personal information to “verify” you are you and then link your real identity to all of your account’s activity for surveillance and sell that info for ads. I will protect your personal info very poorly so your info gets dumped on the internet for all to browse. /s
There’s a million reasons why someone wants their info to stay more private. I’m an admin on lemmy, why the fuck should anyone give me their personal info?! Please web search about online privacy and why things like “nothing to hide” is such an ignorant take.
Your first part is irrelevant, you don’t need to know that. The government, wherever you live, whether you like it or not, knows everything about you. There’s no need to hide anything, and quite frankly if people are against digital ID verification, they obviously have something to hide.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_to_hide_argument
The logic of a child
Get the fuck outta here you fuckin narc.
The point is that you are giving this info to persona and not to the government. A government-maintained age verification service that only provides platforms with the fact that you are of age and maybe your name would be optimal imo, but that’s not what’s happening here.
Your current logic is since the government knows your personal information, everyone should then share this information with every company or person that asks for it. I am an admin on lemmy, a social media site that would be required in some countries to do digital ID verification. You’re saying that people should trust me with their personal info to verify their age or that they are human and allow them to continue using lemmy. I am a random person, just like Persona and the other random companies that do age verification. Persona has already had a leak btw. Do you trust Discord? You shouldn’t since 70,000 IDs were leaked. Or how about IDMerit who exposed 1 billion records of PII?
If you have nothing to hide, then you shouldn’t be afraid of me asking for your information I requested so that you can continue browsing lemmy uninterrupted. Do you see why your logic makes 0 sense? The government is not doing the age verification for reddit*, it is a random person like me doing it. You do have something to hide, because you refused to send me your personal info, you refuse to doxx yourself. And you should refuse, it is sane to refuse, that is why we all refuse digital ID verification. Please read the other comments as well, don’t blindly accept the propaganda of the oppressors. I see your account is new, good luck learning new viewpoints.
*I don’t trust the government to do the ID verification either to be clear, that is survellaince from a police state, the state is inherently violent. We have seen governments like the USian DOGE fumble basic shit during their survellaince.
Of course the government knows everything about us that is the reason why there are no criminals anymore. They get caught immediately and that scares all the people who otherwise would do crimes into not committing them.
Everybody knows that.
Governments want you to think they know everything about you but they really don’t, although they relentlessly want to, which is why they pass all of these surveillance bills. For this case specifically, the verification is done by a company owned by Peter Thiel called Persona, not the government. In either case, no one should know everything about you because privacy is a human right.
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