In July of 2025, The Government of the United Kingdom on Earth recently passed a new legislation that makes ID Verification Manditory and Nessesary for visiting websites that have pornographic content.
This has Privacy Enthusiasts (understandably) Riled up due to the fact that this can deanonymize users of the internet with the possibility of Fingerprinting, Identity Theft and Mass Surveillance.
What also worries people is the fact that there will be a need to process these IDs correctly in order to verify the users age. If the ID isn't immediately deleted right after verification, there is a higher chance of that information being leaked and sold to criminals.
And people are often unable to know how this verification system works under the hood! These will often not be open source nor will it be possible to verify that everybody has the same implementation.
On Discord, a picture of Death Stranding's Sam Porter Bridges was able to bypass existing ID verification measures.
Use of VPN's has skyrocketed in order to circumvent this meaning that the UK's enforcement of this law is very weak.
In other news, a trustworthy journalist of mine has suggested that this could be the only way to solve the Dead Internet Theory.
What do you think about this? I will be posting my opinion in the comments but I want to know what you guys think...
How will Manditory ID effect the internet as a whole and how should we fix the issue?
Re: How will Manditory ID effect the internet as a whole and how should we fix the issue?
To be honest, they're trying to come up with excuses that seem plausible but are really just ways of repackaging mass surveillance.
Hell, they even are trying to advocate for the criminalization of The TOR Browser saying that it's some hacking tool that high schoolers shouldn't get their hands on!
It would be much easier to just ban porn, but to do that would be to lose the millions poured into politicians pockets to keep that industry alive.
And about the dead internet theory, I remember one time whilst I was darknet surfing that I came across a hacking groups website and on there were free samples of leaked social security IDs from some financial company
If you want to stop the dead internet theory via ID Verification, I think you'll only be stopping 70% of all bots with this technique because the other 30% will be using stolen Identity Infomation to bypass this.
And to give credit where credits due, he doesn't think this should be implemented either, but these bots are now influencing our ideological sphere to forcefully and artificially spread the ideas of somebody else.
I get where he is coming from, but I don't think this is it. Paying a dollar to use the service is a much better idea, but it's also not perfect and it's going to drive away a lot of the real humans as well.
Hell, they even are trying to advocate for the criminalization of The TOR Browser saying that it's some hacking tool that high schoolers shouldn't get their hands on!
It would be much easier to just ban porn, but to do that would be to lose the millions poured into politicians pockets to keep that industry alive.
And about the dead internet theory, I remember one time whilst I was darknet surfing that I came across a hacking groups website and on there were free samples of leaked social security IDs from some financial company
If you want to stop the dead internet theory via ID Verification, I think you'll only be stopping 70% of all bots with this technique because the other 30% will be using stolen Identity Infomation to bypass this.
And to give credit where credits due, he doesn't think this should be implemented either, but these bots are now influencing our ideological sphere to forcefully and artificially spread the ideas of somebody else.
I get where he is coming from, but I don't think this is it. Paying a dollar to use the service is a much better idea, but it's also not perfect and it's going to drive away a lot of the real humans as well.
Re: How will Manditory ID effect the internet as a whole and how should we fix the issue?
Nothing ever happens.
This will result in a temporary backlash against the Establishment but the NPC population will continue to use social media wether it's with a VPN or not without ever thinking if giving big corporations (AKA government agencies (just like how Peter Thiel started Palantir and became Facebook's first outside investor as the Total Information Awareness program was ending)) control over your freedom (wether it's speech or privacy) is a bad thing. Then this moment will soon be forgotten from public consciousness.
Maybe a few will start getting into the darknet or start caring about internet freedom. In my opinion darknets are only a band aid solution. The internet is hierarchical and if they control the internet backbone companies (UUnet and others) they theoretically have control over literally every single piece of data that flows around the globe. Then in a dystopian or apocalyptic situation where these large datacentres that make up the internet backbone are destroyed, then we're fucked.
Mesh networks stacks like Reticulum (https://reticulum.network/) are the future, where end-to-end encryption, no source addresses and per-packet encryption is the default, even on radio or LoRa devices, and you can literally create your own network just by running a node. For example, NomadNet is a great web-alternative built on Reticulum.
This will result in a temporary backlash against the Establishment but the NPC population will continue to use social media wether it's with a VPN or not without ever thinking if giving big corporations (AKA government agencies (just like how Peter Thiel started Palantir and became Facebook's first outside investor as the Total Information Awareness program was ending)) control over your freedom (wether it's speech or privacy) is a bad thing. Then this moment will soon be forgotten from public consciousness.
Maybe a few will start getting into the darknet or start caring about internet freedom. In my opinion darknets are only a band aid solution. The internet is hierarchical and if they control the internet backbone companies (UUnet and others) they theoretically have control over literally every single piece of data that flows around the globe. Then in a dystopian or apocalyptic situation where these large datacentres that make up the internet backbone are destroyed, then we're fucked.
Mesh networks stacks like Reticulum (https://reticulum.network/) are the future, where end-to-end encryption, no source addresses and per-packet encryption is the default, even on radio or LoRa devices, and you can literally create your own network just by running a node. For example, NomadNet is a great web-alternative built on Reticulum.
Re: How will Manditory ID effect the internet as a whole and how should we fix the issue?
time for everyone to go stock up on stolen ID's
extra points for the ID's of politicians that vote this stuff in, go do something fun with it
extra points for the ID's of politicians that vote this stuff in, go do something fun with it
Re: How will Manditory ID effect the internet as a whole and how should we fix the issue?
Also should mention Yggdrasil network. It might not be as versatile, but it offers the usual IPv6 addressing, on top of which regular apps can run. Computers can be connected with wifi, ethernet, or something custom probably. Or over the internet.
Re: How will Manditory ID effect the internet as a whole and how should we fix the issue?
I don't think the mainstream public will make as big deal about it as they should or could, and it will be implemented in more places going forward. Most people are too addicted to social media and other bs to care when their rights are being taken away. It's putting a toddler to bed, they'll be mad for a few minutes if their toys are taken away but they fall asleep instantly and forget about everything when they wake up.