Protecting children online is crucial, but forcing every user to hand over their ID is a privacy nightmare waiting to happen, according to the head of the Swiss privacy firm
Well for one thing they have suspended whole tranches of accounts based solely on the word of the government that asked them to without any sort of due process. For another if an account is on a black list they just shut down the account with no way to appeal or make a case. As if the dozens of companies that keep blackmail lists are the word of fucking god. Which they’re not. I know because I am on one of them.
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Well for one thing they have suspended whole tranches of accounts based solely on the word of the government that asked them to without any sort of due process. For another if an account is on a black list they just shut down the account with no way to appeal or make a case. As if the dozens of companies that keep blackmail lists are the word of fucking god. Which they’re not. I know because I am on one of them.