If you cannot say no to digital ID, you cannot say no to anything the system demands. Your consent becomes automatic, your compliance assumed, your agency nullified. If you say yes to digital IDs, you're saying yes to financial surveillance, medical tyranny, and social credit systems, whether you realize it or not. You're saying yes to a world where the government has a kill switch on your entire existence. You're saying yes to the permanent end of privacy, autonomy, and dissent. The cruel irony is, once you say yes, you'll never be able to say no again because the system won't let you. View article →

Can't wait to see Elliot Page as Achilles

"If the assumption is made that the govt has control over your income, whether it's 1% or 99%, the principle is 100% the gvt has control. So if they permit you to keep a certain percentage, they are in the driver's seat." View article →

Once upon a time

Big tech companies will choose compliance with Draconian laws over standing on principle, most of the time. Anthropic's pre-emptive compliance with online ID checks is a good example. The best defence is to boycott such companies as compliance only strengthens the cage.

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