Is there anything stopping me from uploading an ID for Shrek or something? I foresee an explosion of popularity of fake IDs.
this post was submitted on 28 Apr 2026
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That's quite obviously the end goal here.
https://proton.me/blog/anonymity-vs-privacy
These guys are such clowns. They stop just short of saying anonymity is bad by saying things like you can't use your logging if you anonymously log in (duh) and bizarrely you may be more secure without it.
"A good example of this is Proton Mail‘s optional authentication logs feature. Enabling this prevents you from logging into your account anonymously, but it improves your security by allowing you to detect suspicious logins (for example, a login from another country).
For most people, privacy is a great deal more important than anonymity'
They won't provide it with their own service and instead push it onto the user. For instance, most recently they have been known to log credit card data. A company really concerned with security would not store this data on their own servers and there are practical ways to accomplish this.
This company makes its money on security theatre. I swear they are a honeypot for criminals actors and they know it hence why they downplay anonymity.
I'd be ok with age verification if it can be done in an anonyomous way.
Nym's coconut credentials could do this.
https://constructiveproof.com/posts/2020-03-24-nym-credentials-overview/
Of course the people pushing for this won't try to do it that way because protecting the children isn't really their motive. Surveillance is and something like coconut creds would render that moot.
I’d be ok with age verification if it can be done in an anonyomous way
People lost their shit over a local API with an easily fake-able age bracket.
The problem with hyperventilating over everything, is that there is no benefit to even trying to write reasonable laws as they get painted dishonestly anyway.
Can we make a new internet?
Yes, have a look at reticulum. No centralized addressing authority. No centralized domain naming system. Everything is globally routeable. It also just got support for transferring HTTP with RServer and MeshBrowser.
I always figured we would go to tor when this day came. But I keep seeing people mention all of these alternatives I have not heard of. Is this reticulum better?
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There's i2p and freenet as far as I am aware
Yeah, we ( you guys ) should fork the internet.
There's Meshtastic and the like ( I think ) but then again what we'll build there? Another fediverse ? I don't see the difference with what I have now.
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People forget that the current antitrust actions against Big Tech were started under the first Trump admin
His earlier words did not age well
This moron is also a MAGA appologist and enabler. I left Proton for other alternatives. They want to claim they are "politically nuetral" well if you really were you wouldnt be commenting at all on politics would you?
Only idiots want politically neutral, anyways. I want clear biases for the people open and free forms of communication. That’s HIGHLY political.
Politically neutral supports fascism, always.
I must have missed a bunch. I only recall him saying he liked trumps pick for one role.
If you would have read past that part in the same post you could have read that he also thinks republicans are sticking up for the little guy and the democrats are in bed with big tech. After that he also never said anything to the contrary. I also use his product and I wish he were a better guy too, but he said what he said and stuck with it.
So yes, you are either misinformed by not reading past the first few words of his post or disingenuous by purposely leaving out the rest.
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Dark web 2.0, here we come!
Stating the obvious.
META was a major lobbyist for all of the state bills we’ve seen so far. There’s probably more. Or META is taking the lead because most hate them already, which provides a nice distraction from anyone else involved.
Tech and data centers want our data. What better way for a complete data set is there? I’m sure Palantir is in there somewhere.
i've been wanting to quit internet anyway...
“Turn into” ?
Moreso. It can always get worse, and indeed everything is.
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