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Posted by computerliker 6 hours ago

State Attorneys General Want to Tie Online Access to ID(reclaimthenet.org)
104 points | 78 commentspage 3
ls612 6 hours ago||
I’m going to go against the pessimism here and say that this is the US not Europe or the UK and the First Amendment has teeth. There’s ample Supreme Court precedent that anonymous speech is a protected right (Talley vs CA, Macintyre vs Ohio, etc) so I’d expect efforts like this to flounder in the courts if push came to shove.
13415 6 hours ago|
What the US Supreme Court decides is much less relevant than it used to be because the US executive can and will simply ignore the decision. If anyone in the US administration breaks the law, they can be pardoned by the US president,if the president breaks the law, he's immune against prosecution based on a previous decision of the Supreme Court, and no court can enforce anything if the executive doesn't comply with the court order.
direwolf20 6 hours ago||
I have mixed feelings about this website, reclaimthenet. In one breath it supports net neutrality and and opposes ID laws, and in the next — not in this particular article — mentions the Twitter files and says the UK is a dictatorship for arresting Lucy Connolly.
gjsman-1000 6 hours ago||
I blame HN and Silicon Valley in general for consistently treating keeping children online safe as a parental responsibility only, rather than a government-parent team effort like every other regulation.

This loophole, “think of the children,” would not exist if SV had gotten over itself and not called very solution unworkable while insisting that any solution parents receive, no matter how sloppy or confusing, is workable.

dwedge 6 hours ago||
Yeah exactly, had it not been for Facebook and the rest of social media not taking children online seriously, The Simpsons wouldn't have had to mock the cultural meme of blaming everything on saving children back in 1996 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RybNI0KB1bg
pavel_lishin 6 hours ago||
Aren't most of these problems directly caused by the government claiming to do these things to protect children?
stopbulying 6 hours ago|
What is a good resource for reviewing the advantages and disadvantages of mandatory Real ID for Internet access?

Aren't there sound reasons to support anonymous whistleblowing?

Would there be critical feedback without pseudo-anonymity on the internet?

But you folks just have to dom all the haters.

What is their favorite thing: stuffed animal brand, candy, musical artist?

But then wouldn't undercover ops be obvious?

Is this similar to the "ban all crypto" movements that periodically forget everything we've learned about infosec and protecting folks?

Do protectees' deserve privacy for their safety?

In the 1990s, they told us kids not to use our real names or addresses on the internet.