I think google should pull their virtual head out of their corporate ass and realize that sucking up to Trump isn't good for a future in which they get to continue to exist.

State driver's licenses exist, at least today and for decades (as long as I can remember is itself, alas, a significant number of those now — but longer than that) alongside state ID cards which resemble them and perform the same function.

SSNs were never intended to be used for anything else, and should not have been. But here we are with allegedly non-social credit scores.

Typical anti-consumer, corporation-fellating clown shit from the usual source. We get it, anything the corporations do is great and we should all look up to them. If we were righteous, we would be as successful as they are!

This is why antitrust law exists and applies to more than monopolies.

No, and in fact we should never have used SSNs for anything but social security and taxes.

Other nations presumably have National ID because they don't leave so much up to states. States are actually relevant here.

Maybe he has experience with one of the Navy things they have done to fuck over customers

That's deluded bullshit. China produces items at all quality levels.

That problem is literally years behind the problem discussed in this article, which is here NOW.

I want everything I associate with to resist fascism. That's how people against fascism behave.

We should not need a national ID. State IDs should be fine. There is no reason they should be a problem.

Real ID is all but worthless outside of an airport. For example ICE doesn't accept it.

You're confusing teaching with making information available.

Public schools generally do not teach critical thinking and only limited problem solving.

Why would I care about a bunch of betas? Because it will lead to a few footnotes in some YouTube videos?

Adults don't kowtow to dictators. That's kiddie shit. No wonder it impressed you.

The problem is that they exposed costly dynamic content without requiring authorization and that is no longer viable. No unverified user should ever have the power to bring up any dynamic content whose impact you cannot address through caching.

The real reason is that the rule of law does not exist. Only the rule of money is real. As long as terms of use mean nothing unless you have deep pockets, the beatings will continue.