Re:Digital real estate and the digital housing crisis
by salawat on Monday January 03, 2022 @09:41AM
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The wet dream of every authoritarian everywhere:
Get people to accept a system of Universally Unique identifiers to facilitate population control as a DB query.
Like we don't already have issues enough with people trying to do that.
Libra or whatever was pulled after Facebook was put in the hot seat by Congress and regulators for non-proactive compliance with regulators. Turns out when your the 900 lbs gorilla in the room, the bar is still higher on expected due-diligence when unilaterally upending a regulated space that also happens to play into international policymaking and enforcement.
Get people to accept a system of Universally Unique identifiers to facilitate population control as a DB query.
Like we don't already have issues enough with people trying to do that.
Libra or whatever was pulled after Facebook was put in the hot seat by Congress and regulators for non-proactive compliance with regulators. Turns out when your the 900 lbs gorilla in the room, the bar is still higher on expected due-diligence when unilaterally upending a regulated space that also happens to play into international policymaking and enforcement.