This seems to come up in every discussion, in practice it’s irrelevant both because it’s too complicated for normal people to understand, and because the point of all this nonsense really is identification so anything that defeats that will be a non starter.

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bluefirebrand 2 hours ago | parent [-]

It doesn't have to be too complicated for normal people to understand.

Majority of people understand their SIN or SSN number or whatever, they understand they have a drivers license number. This could be built in such a way that it's basically just be another government issued "thing" that they have to know about and be able to produce when requested

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Geezus_42 an hour ago | parent [-]

Every government has been working on ways to identify and target individuals online since as long as the internet has existed. Governments are incentivized to continuously increase control. Why would you assume this is not yet another escalation towards their goal of being able to track and silence anyone who pushes back?

	▲	bluefirebrand 43 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I didn't comment at all on what the governments goals are Edit: I agree with you 100%, but the fact that governments want to track people online has no bearing on how technically possible it is to build a system where they can't An anonymous internet auth system (probably) won't get built, but it is possible to build