Comment on China New Internet ID System a Threat to Online Expression: Netizens will require IDs to go on the internet. For now this is voluntary, but there are signs it will not remain that way for long.

Xanthobilly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• lupusblackfur@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  VPNs, meshnets, encryption, and other alternatives

  All of which will, of course, soon become illegal and the simple use/possession of which will verify that user as an “anti-govt” subversive worthy of deportation, incarceration, or worse.

  🤷‍♂️

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• atticus88th@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Even blue states in the U.S. are going this direction.

  Hoard your data folks!

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  • Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Even the EU is. It’s looking bleak in that department.

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    • sqgl@sh.itjust.works ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      In Australia it was proposed by the Labor government and it was the Greens who passed the Digital ID bill. (Labor needed either the Greens or Conservatives on board).

      It was the conservatives who opposed it (similar to when Conservatives opposed the Australia Card in the 80’s).

      Go figure.

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      • Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        My best guess is that like 99% of Aussies don’t seem to give a rat’s ass about politics so as long as the parliament does things that loosely resemble working nobody’s gonna ask questions 😅

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