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Bye, X: Europeans are launching their own social media platform, W (cybernews.com)

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[–] kbal@fedia.io 181 points 2 days ago (3 children)

The new platform, W, will require identification and photo validation to ensure that its users are both humans and who they claim to be

Kind of them to get that out of the way in the first sentence. No further reading required.

[–] jimmy90@lemmy.world 1 points 20 minutes ago

this is the best thing about it read on,

whereabouts in st petersburg are you from

[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 51 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Lol, why not blood samples? IDs and photos can be faked by AI but not blood...yet.

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 23 points 2 days ago

https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/news-blog/lab-creates-fake-dna-evidence-2009-08-18/

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago

Lol, why not blood samples?

Could just mail in a stool sample.

[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Honestly, I prefer this.

I can stand behind my words.

[–] HexadecimalSky@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

What was that movie with the gentic id stuff, gattaca? Yeah, shouldn't give them too many "good" ideas....

[–] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I refuse to use anything that doesn't allow authentication via bunghole print. It's just more convenient.

[–] bss03@infosec.pub 2 points 1 day ago

A SmartPipe^tm^ subscriber in the wild?

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 1 points 2 days ago

You're wishing a glorious doom upon us, my friend.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Ah man, I almost got excited for a second...