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Discord announced yesterday that they’re delaying their mandatory ID verification until they can find “better solutions and more reliable partners.” This may seem like a win, but it’s merely a delay.
There is something bigger going on here.
Right now individual apps and websites are being mandated to require forced ID verification by government entities. As we’ve mentioned before this is under the guise of national security and child protection, but it is actually for the purpose of mass surveillance and mass censorship, especially as we are heading into both turbulent and unknown economic future.
It’s worth stressing the economic portion. As the dollar loses its dominance, as AI upends our entire way of life, we’re headed into a chaotic unknown. And within chaotic unknowns opportunities for shifts and power become available. It’s like the Game of Thrones quote, “chaos is a ladder.”
In order to maintain some control and prevent power shifts, the current powers want complete control over information flow, and the ability to modify it.
That’s where ID verification comes in. It allows you to be able to be deplatformed, dehumaned, bullied, threatened, and in some cases killed, if you challenge the power structures.
So right now the current governments are experimenting with ID verification at the app/website layer, like Discord, but that’s not the end game.
That type of verification is very easily gameable. You can get around it. Whether you use a VPN, or a fake face, or whatever, it’s possible to skirt it.
That’s why app layer verification isn’t the end stage. The next stage is verification at the OS level. This means that the OS has your full identity and everything you do within that OS is tracked. This means they don’t need to worry about app layer verification, you’re already tracked.
Now even THIS is possible to be gamed with things like GrapheneOS, which means that even THIS isn’t the final goal.
Level beyond this is verification at the ISP level. This means it doesn’t even matter what OS you use, to access the internet PERIOD you will need to fully identify. No GrapheneOS nor Tor will save you.
Now, why does all of this matter? Who cares if you have nothing to hide, right?
Wrong.
What may be safe to say today, may not be safe tomorrow. You don’t know who you’ll be in the future. You don’t know who you piss off in the future. You don’t know what you don’t know. The right to privacy is inherent for humans. It’s what allows people to speak freely and feel safe. It’s the vital blood of society.
When we lose this, nobody will speak. Your voice will be silenced permanently. Nobody will want to take the risk and in extreme cases die.
It’s worth restating that we’re headed into a completely unknown economic future. Things are going to get very strange. And when people get scared, they try to control. You want to have privacy in this type of world.
So if the app layer, the OS layer, and the Internet itself, are all compromised, what is left?
And that’s the real question. Maybe it’s time to leave the Internet? Maybe the new Internet is offline.
Something to consider.
