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| Topic | Actor Idris Elba says 'ID' should be required to make a Social Media Account... |
| Zeus 07/20/21 3:01:18 PM #17: | Kyuubi4269 posted... It's to enforce existing hate crime laws that don't stop applying just because you're doing it via social media. It's an attempt to simplify the job of an investigating officer to track down someone who's committed an established crime. Generally UK law is well-intentioned and overarching. Whether the ideas are visible or not doesn't help with that. You could argue that using IDs for the sign-up might -- which, again, is assuming that the ID belongs to the person registering it -- but making the ID itself visual doesn't. And Idris pretty explicitly made clear that's not what he was looking for. He stated that he wants peoples' names attached to their opinions. And, not for nothing, but using full IDs when registering for everything online would also provide new opportunities for identity theft. We *already* over-use public forms of ID, which leads to rampant identity theft. --- (\/)(\/)|-| There are precious few at ease / With moral ambiguities / So we act as though they don't exist. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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