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[-] ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 13 hours ago

I have theories on this but I don’t think it’ll be as straightforward as you’re describing.

I think they’ll try to exploit software pseudo monopolies (specifically Microsoft Windows and Steam) to forcibly tie hardware to identities and make most widely used sharing platforms (mainstream social media) preserve much more tracking information on each piece of data.

I think we’ll see similar agreements and serial number registrations for things like GPUs as we’re seeing on 5090 sales in the US. I also think using Linux or other anonymous OSs will be treated like Graphene is already being treated as a suspicious sign.

I do think longer term there will be enough public revulsion to prevent this from happening too quickly and for the most part I don’t think the free software genie will ever go back into the bottle just because of how reliant everything is on it, but this can of course change. I genuinely believe Internet identity verification for basic things is extremely unpopular even with non techies and I’d like to think it’ll get repealed as a legal requirement in some places

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