You can refuse to provide official ID or biometric data for social media accounts requiring age verification.
Actually, I bet if everyone did refuse, and let their account dormant for a couple of weeks, you would suddenly see American Big Tech transforming into the fiercest defender of your privacy rights, using their powerful network of lobbyists to fight these invasive government regulations.
They need you more than you need them.
Force them to work for your rights.
Do not comply.
@Em0nM4stodon
I don't need social media. I like it, I use it, I don't need it. If it demands official ID then it can fuck off.
The problem is going to be, being forced to log in to specific services and provide official ID in order to carry out basic functions, even though companies have already verified your ID or the relationship wouldn't function.
We will be forced to comply.
And all of that is next to nothing compared to client side device scanning.
Goodbye privacy.
Im not into face scanning. It terrifies me. Coles supermarket here in Australia scans customers at the self serve check outs. I didn't realise till it was too late and I was on camera. So my face is out there. Customers weren't told prior.
Airports scan you now. Didn't ask for that either. Give me a human any day.
Doha airport fingerprints you.
Some fckwit like Musk will start pushing microchips in the next couple of years so we will all be treated like dogs and cats. Fuck 'em
@Em0nM4stodon I'm refusing. Fuck that shit.
@Em0nM4stodon That will be easier said than done, though it's absolutely doable. Considering the age verification laws (that's really digital ID) coming into play, they'll certainly backfire and be repealed if enough people cause a revolution over it (it'll have to be a quiet one at first, unless a civil war comes into play).
Probably lots of people don't want to be felt up...
@Em0nM4stodon I’ll bet Mark Wyner won’t comply.
@Em0nM4stodon The masses still don't understand how boycotts and protests work.
After a week of not logging into Meta or Twitter or whatever they'll give up on trying to find a hobby and submit.
Social media sites using biometric ID will absolutely be shared with state border services as evidence to deny entry or brutal detention.
Any thought contining "if everybody did..." is void.
@Em0nM4stodon The problem is while you will see a lot of complaining, most people will fork it over to keep their tiktok, IG, X, etc feeds pouring in. Though you're not wrong...if a majority would cut off the data and ad impression stream.....tech would become very vocal supporters of user privacy in regards to forking over id for verification.
@Em0nM4stodon Yes, boycott any corporation or platform that violates any of your rights. The power of American consumer is vast, but not used enough currently.
I left FB 15yrs ago. Never regretted it. I don't use LinkedIn or Insta or TikTok.
95% of my friends message through Signal rather than Meta ie Messenger (FB) or WApp
One of my dearest friends refuses to get a Signal account and leave Meta/WApp bc she says "it's another app to download and they're all the same". Im in Aus. She's in UK. I don't want to lose touch but I want to close WApp.
Give me sthg WATERTIGHT to convince her Meta/WApp is fucked.
@Em0nM4stodon
I created LinkedIN account 3 weeks back. Tried to login today and BAM! give us your ID card.
There is no law in India as far as I know to provide ID card. This is so tiresome.
@Em0nM4stodon Big Tech has no interest in our privacy. They've been stealing it for years.
They've been stealing peoples mental health too, at least now their cattle (users) should be old enough to make a better decision.
Unfortunatelly agree with that thing, id verification is not all-way cure.
One my friend has 2 PhD in math and physics and he does not have driver license...
And he does not want to get one.
@Em0nM4stodon Well, my StinkIn has been dormant now for half a year after they wanted me to identify myself with a government ID......
No, I'm not willing to provide one.
@Em0nM4stodon this is why I like the identity validation system on infosec.exchange, proof of cat is sufficient to appease most of the admins.
@Em0nM4stodon i think the loss of the ar revenue would have them shittings kittens
@Em0nM4stodon Agorithmic platforms would be the only winners. And they are the enemy, quite literally.
@Em0nM4stodon Discord - which isn't required to do this under Australian law - has just started demanding Govt ID etc. the same Discord which just leaked 68000 users ID documents, thus proving they are not to be trusted with anything. It is a dystopian nightmare of censorship, incompetence, and bad ideas
@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange Directly relevant to the shopping sites and gaming accounts I use. Straight up just refuse to fill in anything unnecessary, like gender.
My shopping sites keep reminding me to fill in the gender info, and I am like nah, who's holding the (debit) cards here?
@Em0nM4stodon I've long thought we need some sort of external union like structure to coordinate boycotts and strikes on social networks, so you sign up to the Facebook union and if a strike is called you stop using it. I don't use anything meta but my boycott isn't very effective.
@BenjaminKlein That would be brilliant.
Good thing the Fediverse doesn't do that shit
@Em0nM4stodon Got an email saying someone had sent me a message on LinkedIn. Not been on there in years. They now want my passport ID. They can get tea’ shit.
@Em0nM4stodon "but my friends are there"
get more, better friends
@codinghorror
Change “friends” to i.e. “preschool parent group” or any other IRL ingroup, and try again.
Social connections are hard to migrate to alternative platforms.
@codinghorror @Em0nM4stodon
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@codinghorror @Em0nM4stodon ain't it the truth. Navy taught me that.
@Em0nM4stodon @codinghorror Can I order more better friends on Amazon?
@grayabbott @Em0nM4stodon well how much money do you have
@codinghorror @Em0nM4stodon Probably not enough.
I used to buy all my friends on Temu, but now, you know, tariffs.
@codinghorror @Em0nM4stodon YouTube just told my YouTube account that it's a child—which excuses you from the "personalized" ads, so I guess that account will never grow up
@dmarti @codinghorror @Em0nM4stodon I thought most of us had Youtube accounts for longer than 18 years.
@Em0nM4stodon Let's hope it's a tipping point for online privacy in the mainstream.
