• JeffCraig@citizensgaming.com
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    1 year ago

    Man, this makes me rethink my whole idea of online anonymity.

    There’s a lot of reasons why requiring identity verification could be a good thing, but holy shit now I realize how quickly something like that could slip into authoritarianism.

    I still think we need a identity verification service for things like online games and social media (to thwart ban evasion), but it has to be something decentralized.

    • darthfabulous42069@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      🤔 A blockchain with a private key tied to your palm print would work. It would guarantee proving uniqueness in a way that no human could differentiate who is what, only the blockchain itself could, and because palm prints are extremely difficult for other people to fake, it would guarantee the ability for websites to actually enforce rules in a meaningful way.

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      1 year ago

      It doesn’t have to be decentralized, it has to be anonymous. You want to have an online identity in the number of one per citizen, but not tied to the real identities.

      There’s a way to do this by using regular digital ID and anonymizing it with zero-knowledge cryptography, but AFAIK noone tried this yet