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FCC proposes requiring ID verification to use phone numbers (archive.ph)
posted 41 days ago by theaustrianpainter 41 days ago by theaustrianpainter +19 / -0
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– GamingTheSystem-01 7 points 41 days ago +7 / -0

>Just turn off your phone

Correct. I have had my phone on do not disturb for well over a decade, reducing it to essentially an even shittier email service (email is also unfit for purpose). Now all I need to do is convince everyone in the entire world to do the same thing so they're not answering jeet scam calls on their car's touch screen dashboard while their 4 ton SUV hurtles through a red light directly into my driver's side door.

Oh and did you know if someone calls you enough times in a row, it will break through the do not disturb on android? There's a second "do not disturb, for real" setting you have to turn on.

Just shut the whole thing down. We have the internet, there are uncountably many chat apps that are superior to the phone system. We don't need this shit.

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– LordLavaLamp 3 points 41 days ago +3 / -0

Now all I need to do is convince everyone in the entire world to do the same thing so they're not answering jeet scam calls on their car's touch screen dashboard while their 4 ton SUV hurtles through a red light directly into my driver's side door.

Brother, if you think turning the phones off and making everyone use chat applications will fix this, you're insane. A large percentage of crashes nowadays are BECAUSE people are using chats and texting while driving.

You're not getting rid of phones. The reason phones exist is because people want them. If you "shut it all down", someone will just make a new one and re-invent the wheel.

And, quite frankly, I'm tired of ordering society around the lowest common denominator. I object most stridently on having my rights violated and my privileges revokes because someone else, somewhere else, MIGHT not be trusted to have them.

For a final point, absolutely fuck anything to do with centralized government databases for identity verification. Those are massive, juicy, lightly-armored targets staffed by morons, and they'll be constantly attacked by bad actors looking to steal and monetize information you CAN'T CHANGE, like biometrics. Look at what happened in France a few days ago; what was it, 1/3 of the population's data was leaked from a hack? No, fuck that. Government agencies can't be trusted with this shit.

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