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0 pointsnarrowrail9y ago0 comments

>I would honestly be happier if we just had a national ID tied to our internet access. I sort of wonder if Internet 1 will have to break before we create a better implementation.

As a US citizen, this is truly offensive. It's as if you have no understanding of the government structure and history of The United States of America. We have 50 sovereign states, and this independence has allowed the state of New York to ban fracking and the state of Colorado to legalize cannabis. Not to mention that you just laid out what I would refer to as a police state.

I believe you should read the Federalist Papers and the Anti-Federalist Papers, and think more carefully about what you proposed.

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dforrestwilson19y ago· 2 in thread

So be offended and down-vote me for expressing my opinion then?

What do you think a social security number is exactly? You seem to be confusing identification with independence.

I have read both papers thank you.

SomeStupidPoint9y ago

Social security is not a national ID, though it's often used (badly) as one.

I didn't downvote your original post, but I will say that many of us don't share your view: we love freedom and aren't willing to so blithely trade it away.

Anonymous speech is the backbone of American freedom, and has been since the founding of the nation. Some of us are willing to have Civil War 2 before we let the government take that enshrined right away.

dforrestwilson19y ago

Free speech definitely. It's enshrined in our constitution. Anonymous speech though? I don't see any amendments about that.

If you believe you are anonymous now, then I don't believe you have been paying attention to what the government has been able to do legally for the past 15 years.

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sdenton49y ago

I'm a USian, and find the resistance to national ID pretty nonsensical. We've got a patchwork of id in the States, using driver's license and ssn as proxies for identification. If you're on the road, people often won't recognise your Nebraska state ID if they haven't seen one before. Hell, I've had supermarkets refuse my passport when buying beer...

And meanwhile there are a pile of states making it increasingly onerous to get id in order to limit voting.

Having a coherent strategy for id doesn't preclude banning fracking NY. It also doesn't imply that the government will require access to your social media accounts, or use tanks to investigate overdue parking tickets, both of which we seem to be running towards without a national ID...

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