| ▲ | egorfine 3 hours ago |
| reddit started asking KYC yesterday. You (and me) can bitch all you want, but reddit has well prepared for us whining and being sad will change nothing. Mark my words: KYC will be required on HN in about two years. Not because dang will want it, but because that's the direction the world is going to. |
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| ▲ | kklisura 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Maybe dang doesn't want it, but his boss definitely wants it. Garry Tan, president & CEO of YC, on Flock support: "You're thinking Chinese surveillance US-based surveillance helps victims and prevents more victims" [1] The tech/VC people want it, because that's where the money will be. [1] https://x.com/garrytan/status/1963310592615485955 |
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| ▲ | qwertox 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > us whining and being sad will change nothing For me, ditching Reddit was what changed. |
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| ▲ | egorfine 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Yeah... I have been reading threads upon threads of normies who discussed how to take better pictures of their passports to submit to Persona in order to keep using reddit. We are clearly the minority and reddit is happy to pay the price of us leaving the platform. |
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| ▲ | Cider9986 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Reddit doesn't want to ask for KYC, they are required by law. Use a VPN, perhaps Mullvad or IVPN to appear to sites as if you are from a freer country (or state) to bypass the KYC. |
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| ▲ | egorfine 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | > they are required by law Yes I understand. They are better prepared to fight the surveillance state than I am. And yet they caved in instead of putting out some resistance. |
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| ▲ | simonask 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| It's weird because... I'm not the customer on either Reddit or HN. I'm the product. |
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| ▲ | egorfine 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | You can become a customer on reddit by purchasing subscription. I did. I like reddit. Doesn't matter. They want your passport. | | |
| ▲ | kruffalon 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | This is like saying you are the customer when you buy branded goods when in essence you are just paying to advertise the product for them. Very weird world we live in! | |
| ▲ | hightrix 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Reddit doesn’t even have my email. No way in hell will they get any real identification. | | |
| ▲ | egorfine 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | You realize people are uploading their docs to reddit by the millions, right? | | |
| ▲ | mdp2021 an hour ago | parent [-] | | What do you mean? You do realize that "those" people have little to nothing to do with proper people, right? Of course people are deficient by the billions. | | |
| ▲ | egorfine an hour ago | parent [-] | | And that means that largely nobody cares about us with our opinion. Internet WILL be completely KYCed and very soon. That's kind of inevitable. |
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| ▲ | mdp2021 an hour ago | parent | prev [-] |
| > will be required on HN in about We moved here because it was the best place available: we'd move elsewhere in case this place will not be available. |
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| ▲ | egorfine an hour ago | parent [-] | | Nah.
HN users just like the rest of the normies will happily oblige and upload their passports. It's just that a small minority will continue to protect child abuse^W^W^Wresist utopia. |
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