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[–] Generic_Handel@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The paranoia is starting to ramp up, now with drones and missiles hitting inside Russia.

My guess is they will crack down hard on anyone trying to talk about the actual reality of what's going on vs the party line.

[–] TheRaven@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

They already do. This just removed more ways to hide.

Lmao Russia moment.

[–] Aikawa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

How long 'til this happens?

[–] CCatMan@lemmy.one -1 points 1 year ago

Think of the children

[–] mcgravier@kbin.social -1 points 1 year ago

Remember: If you're not doing anything bad, you have nothing to hide! Cryptocurrencies and VPNs are used only by criminals xD

[–] riley0@lemmy.fmhy.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's gonna truly suck. VK has good videos unavailable elsewhere. I've had an account there for a long time. I wonder what that'll mean for access to rutracker. edit: whois says rutracker is registered in the Bahamas :)

[–] JeffCraig@citizensgaming.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Man, this makes me rethink my whole idea of online anonymity.

There's a lot of reasons why requiring identity verification could be a good thing, but holy shit now I realize how quickly something like that could slip into authoritarianism.

I still think we need a identity verification service for things like online games and social media (to thwart ban evasion), but it has to be something decentralized.

[–] mcgravier@kbin.social -1 points 1 year ago

It doesn't have to be decentralized, it has to be anonymous. You want to have an online identity in the number of one per citizen, but not tied to the real identities.

There's a way to do this by using regular digital ID and anonymizing it with zero-knowledge cryptography, but AFAIK noone tried this yet

I expect Western governments are looking at this and saying "gee, I wish we had that".

[–] eleitl@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Expect this to come to the EU in a few years.

[–] IDe@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Why? If anything the EU tends towards pro-privacy/anti-authoritarianism and has mostly avoided this kind of security theater seen in other countries.

[–] tryptaminev@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But you see, it is only bad if it is done by authoritarian regimes, but we are states of law and democracy, so there is nothing bad about it. And we are states of law because trust me bro

-European conservatives and "social democrats"

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The UK conservatives aren't even trying to hide it anymore. They have now just gone full on dictatorship energy.

Fortunately they are a bunch of incompetents who fight amongst themselves like a sack of cats. Otherwise they might actually represent threat.

Becareful that's what everyone in the US thought, and then we got Trump and the Q brigade taking down our democracy.