The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate your privacy

Re:The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate yo... by laughing_man on Thursday June 25, 2026 @11:09PM (#48681939)

>There's two strong incentives - deanonymization for law enforcement is pretty useful so that's one.

When you say it like that it sounds less scary than "deanoymization so the government can track down people saying things it doesn't like." Let's not forget the UK has more people in jail for things they said on the internet than Russia and China put together.

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Re:The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate yo... by nemomarx on Thursday June 25, 2026 @11:31PM (#48682040)

Yeah the wording is a little broad, but the UK would call that law enforcement too.

Depends on your state and laws and you can look around at how that's going - maybe you'll have brought a first aid kit to the wrong event or helped print some zines and they want to check up on you now.

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Re:The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate yo... by intended on Friday June 26, 2026 @02:26AM (#48683040)

God, that sentence didn’t pass the sniff test, so I checked:

https://pa.media/blogs/fact-check/fact-check-international-d...

Don’t think that the claim stands up to scrutiny, since its comparing unlike things.

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Re:The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate yo... by laughing_man on Friday June 26, 2026 @03:00AM (#48683263)

Reading your link, "comparing unlike things" looks like spin to me. "It's different when we do it."

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Re:The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate yo... by account42 on Friday June 26, 2026 @05:20AM (#48684334)

But comrade in the UK you can also criticize the government, as long as it's the russian government.

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