I’d like to understand. What is the problem with digital identity?

@Demolishun no, I mean, what governments are introducing right now. I saw a news about this in the UK and people being against it but I don’t understand why so far.

@Tounai probably precursor to CBDCs

China does a "digital identity" for its citizens and then gives them a social credit score. then those people are barred from certain aspects of the society if their score is low, or if their phones are ever found to be GPS located near people with a lower social score, etc

there was a black mirror episode of a similar concept: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

there's a CBDC pilot in an asian island country, and they make anyone from outside the island pay 50% more for goods than their locals

I forget now where, probably china, was floating the idea of expiring money -- so 30 days to spend your income or it expires. no more saving for a house or a new computer, or a new car, or just a rainy day fund in case you or your relatives get sick or are hit by a natural disaster. you can't save any of your value at all (store of value is what economists call it)

agenda 2030 stuff

@jestdotty thank you! I get it now!

@jestdotty Actually, I am wondering, it is something different than digital IDs right?

@jestdotty oh carbon credit is being experimented by some banks already as an opt-in option.

@jestdotty I believe if there is one place that is worst than Europe in terms of social control, it is Canada. Luckily, Europe is governed by old idiots who fail at pretty much everything.

Replacing the need to use physical identification is positive. Introducing collection of sensitive information where it is not necessary is negative.

@jestdotty
I mean, it felt crazy with how everything became racist in Canada, and this was pushed by the government.

Regarding immigration, they all serve the same speech but do nothing anyway. You are lucky in Canada though, because you don’t have the ECDH preventing any immigration control.

@Tounai canada? Dude, look at the other direction. Start with belorussia and go deeper to the east. Don't have to go far to be tracked down and questioned about your past, present and future, hearing details about your life you've long forgotten. And yes, your relatives back in EU WILL be receiving weird calls

@Tounai

So you have numbers and you have an equality function that figures out if the numbers are the same.

So for example 1 == 1, but 1 != 2.

Tu comprends?

Srsly just stop whining like its going to shit. It always had been shit and you are depressed.

@netikras I obviously excluded any non-democratic country in my comparison.

@retoor there's already a tax on living darling it's called VAT.

Taxation sucks compared to direct consequences. I wish it was allowed to shoot at people who pollute my air ahah

@retoor i had a visitor from belarus. She taught me that when the president started to like ice hockey the whole country had to start playing lmao

@retoor fun fact but every politician do drugs, it's part of their job.

@retoor yes, really. A while back an acquaintant of mine in LT was expecting a guest from BY. Hours before that guest even reached the BY border, the host received a phone call from the BY goverment with questions about the guest to be and his purpose of visit and further plans.

A wrong answer could have meant a big fat NO at the border and a cancelled visit. Or worse.

This is a true story from my close circles.

@Demolishun

> The more I learn about the FBI, the more I believe its entire history has been to quell dissent.

Ya think?

@Demolishun

> The most densely armed civil population in the world did an insurrection without guns. How does that make sense?

Exactly, what a bunch of pussies lmao nobody cares about little pew pew guns.

Everybody knows bombs are the true weapon of the people. It's how we got the first of may as a bank holiday!

@Demolishun real resistance is done with bombs, not guns. They were in the white house, they could have blown it up but them weak ass bitches did nothing but get arrested and ridiculed by the media.

@Demolishun also real antifascists are just people who hide aliens. Nothing more but a bunch of hippies lmao the whole paranoia was fucking crazy.

At least in the 60ies you guys had the weather underground.

@retoor
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@retoor they were peasants. Revolutions happens in cities where bourgeois (city people - bosses) and industrial workers lives. In the field, people are still under feudality. Thus the holodomor or the genocide of the vendeens.

But also the CIA infiltrated proper nazis in the state to annoy moscow. That's' fact, they did it in western europe as well.

https://latimes.com/opinion/story/...

https://cia.gov/readingroom/docs/...

@retoor yes, BY is Belarus.

Idk why, how and other details.

What concerns me the most, how did they found out who they are going to, and the personal phone number of the host to be in EU.

The only thought crossing my mind is... Constant telecom surveilance. Like you read in book and see in movies about ssrs and ss occupations

Easy. Define identity first.