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I mean, this has already happened, it just happened in a more sinister way than "FreedomNet now requires logins from all users!" Ad companies and social media track everything you do and can tie it together with various forms of packaged/bought/sold identity that follow you wherever you go. Even with agressive ad blocking, I get ads on Instagram for things I looked up in my browser that I have never used to log into Insta with. We're constantly deanonymized, it just happens below the surface. And all of this is hoovered up by the US dragnet surveillance programs.

So do I support a fully authenticated internet? Fuck no. If we can get good at bot detection, zip bomb the fuckers. In the meantime, work as hard as we can to dismantle the hellscape that the internet has become. I'm all for decentralized, sovereign identity systems that aren't owned by some profiteering corpo cretins or some proto-fascist state, but I don't want it to be a requirement to look at photos of dogs or plan my next trip.



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