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To be fair, we all already use a national id with the social security numbers.
So pretty simply, the government would set up a SS number verification API, tech companies would call that, and use it to verify who you are.
It's a terrible idea and I hate it, but that's probably how it would work.
Except SS is a terrible form of authentication that is compromised already by the credit-reporting agencies for a significant fraction of American citizens.
Specifically by Equifax.
Great so only us citizens can use the internet?
What if they ban you from the internet? Should that even be possible if you’re not breaking the law?
This seems like the most anti American fascist thing I’ve heard in a while and that really says something.
Fuck that. We need to move away from using SSN for literally every-fucking-thing
It's funny because the SS card explicitly states it shouldn't be used for identification purposes.
Yes. I'm wondering if the identity would need to be verified and known/published to the social media site, or just verified to confirm not some Russian disinformation troll. Is there a way to use tokens, or hashes to allow a website to confirm if multiple accounts are the same user without knowing who the users are. I hate this all too, but if it had to be done maybe there's a way to still protect some anonymity but allow verification. If the issue is national security, I imagine we are just talking about catching foreign bad actors.