I'll stop you right here. I don't want to be forced to use a government issued ID — one the administration can revoke at a whim, one that will certainly be backdoored by intelligence agencies including the ones they haven't told you yet — just so I can talk to my friends online.
It's insanity that we are asking the state to regulate personal identity — and trust them with it - in 2026 on hacker news.
I'll stop you right here. I don't want to be forced to use a government issued ID — one the administration can revoke at a whim, one that will certainly be backdoored by intelligence agencies including the ones they haven't told you yet — just so I can talk to my friends online.
It's insanity that we are asking the state to regulate personal identity — and trust them with it - in 2026 on hacker news.