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Nikki Haley vows to abolish anonymous social media accounts: 'It's a national security threat' (wpde.com)

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Nikki Haley vows to abolish anonymous social media accounts: 'It's a national security threat'::WPDE covers news, sports, weather, and local events in and around the Grand Strand, Pee Dee, and the Border Belt.

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[–] RGB3x3@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

To be fair, we all already use a national id with the social security numbers.

So pretty simply, the government would set up a SS number verification API, tech companies would call that, and use it to verify who you are.

It's a terrible idea and I hate it, but that's probably how it would work.

[–] Zyrt@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

Great so only us citizens can use the internet?

What if they ban you from the internet? Should that even be possible if you’re not breaking the law?

This seems like the most anti American fascist thing I’ve heard in a while and that really says something.

[–] sknowmads@dormi.zone 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Except SS is a terrible form of authentication that is compromised already by the credit-reporting agencies for a significant fraction of American citizens.

[–] EatYouWell@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Specifically by Equifax.

[–] Copernican@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes. I'm wondering if the identity would need to be verified and known/published to the social media site, or just verified to confirm not some Russian disinformation troll. Is there a way to use tokens, or hashes to allow a website to confirm if multiple accounts are the same user without knowing who the users are. I hate this all too, but if it had to be done maybe there's a way to still protect some anonymity but allow verification. If the issue is national security, I imagine we are just talking about catching foreign bad actors.