Or instead of pearl-clutching, how about suggesting something productive like a digital id that is only needed for public comments on work-in-progress legislation? There is quite a bit of daylight between that and 1984.
Ideally what I'd like & have suggested is that citizens be able to get attestation of their content at their desired level. I should be able to get anything I write signed by varying levels of government, federal, state, or county, or neighborhood. I should be able to opt into how much identity to share: name, initials, some rotating psuedorandom identitifer, age bracket , income bracket, other core data.
I've stated this repeatedly as I think the baseline of what I think a democratic society should offer, a way to enshrine real speech of citizens as citizens so desire. That would be a real service. What we have here is a vile screwing over of society by hostile powers thieving our liberties from us, locking down the world against humanity for their own sad shallow pathetic ends. These aren't pearls. These are basic rights to be human on this planet. Thanks.
Net neutrality and being free from government ids isn’t a human right ordained by god. That’s a whole new level of ridiculous. People will claim any policy dear to their hearts is a human right ffs
Both from relatively longstanding ish accounts.
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> Ideally what I'd like & have suggested is that citizens be able to get attestation of their content at their desired level. I should be able to get anything I write signed by varying levels of government, federal, state, or county, or neighborhood. I should be able to opt into how much identity to share: name, initials, some rotating psuedorandom identitifer, age bracket, income bracket, other core data
So where again are we talking about what you & other dude jumped in with, seemingly out of nowhere?
I don't care where this is, this is indecorous of you & it's bizarre & unexplained. Blowing more smoke isnt helping.
The Minnesota State House, Senate and Governor seat are all controlled by the same party. That party is now planning to use their unchecked power to push through legislation for a program which will track all reported wrongthink:
https://news.yahoo.com/minnesota-lawmakers-lock-horns-over-2...
In my case, I found no benefit to any national/international news orgs and focus solely on local news on the county/state levels.
I don't feel like I have much of voice when I submit one comment to my legislators, and a kid from California submits 10 million (as mentioned in this case).