I'm old school and I made accounts for various social media I think several years ago back before they even had phone verification on a lot of these sites and some of it is just flat out broken unless you attach a phone number to them now and I simply wasn't prepared for how much cancer was involved lol. Just about managed to get it working but these sites really do break without a working phone number.
I wanted to scrub my big tech presence for the most part and just leave my youtube channel there to prevent any potential hostile takeover and clean up the history so everything is more consistent for my alt-tech stuff in the searches. To think as well they're going to make everything even worse now, we're going to have to give safety lectures to the next generations about internet security and what really happens with social media history. Got to think carefully about where you post your stuff because some of them don't even have delete options to at least take your stuff off the sites. We all know the fuckers will likely keep secret backups for the glowies to peruse even if you can delete stuff off the front end.
I think advising people use burner phones for any social media is going to be sound security advice at this point and always post up fake data.
The US recently started asking for a list of your social media posts and emails used before they will allow you to get a visa/green card. (unless you come in illegally ofc)
Its only a matter of time before third world countries copy this step => you will be at risk of Blasphemy laws/sorcery laws if your plane transits through Dubai/the Middle East…
Quite a dystopian future thanks to all the data collected by the “trust and safety” departments.
It's not an exaggeration that you probably have better freedom of movement in Russia now.
Russia? Try fucking Afghanistan.
You have clearly never been to Russia. They are still arresting people for saying "war" instead of "special military operation".
No I haven't, but here you can get arrested for posting there are only two genders on social media, so what's the difference exactly?
I'm not sure where "here" is, but it's about 90% chance the prisons are better than the Russian ones.
At least in the West you can claim to be a woman and go to the cushy women's prison!
The Philippines just forced everyone to register their phone SIM cards in their name or they deactivated them. There are now no burner phones in that country.
They suffer from extreme poverty, but for God's sake, they had to fucking clamp down on that pressing anonymous phone problem.
Germany has this since 2017 or so. At least you can get burner-SIMs through other EU-countries (roaming inside the EU is relatively cheap)
Ha if only it were that logical
I think we will be looking at this being leveled for accessing (not liking not sharing) the wrong articles or websites
What are they doing if you don't have an account? Would be a good idea to just have a dummy Facebook account or something where you post nothing, looks super normie etc.