That water you’re sitting in is getting warmer isn’t it?

So what’s your name/address/phone number?

Universal identification via digital ID is what this is about. You’re trying to split hairs.

These laws are going to require you to verify your identity using a government issued digital id.

Most developers use their work provided machines, which aren’t gaming machines with giant GPUs because again, GPUs don’t help development at all.

Is it mandated that you use it on every social media site, like Lemmy or Reddit or YouTube?

Not because you want to be anonymous? What’s your name? Address? Phone number?

That’s what the government want to be able to tell. They want to be able to arrest you because you said something they didn’t like, no matter where you say it on the internet.

Your country clearly doesn’t have the type of digital ID that we’re talking about, does it?

As your username. Why don’t you use it?

Why would a developer likely have a high end GPU? Writing code doesn’t use a GPU.

He definitely isn’t. He already knows. This is 100% governments wanting to crack down on free speech. Look how many people the UK government already jails for social media posts.

Good for Germany. In the UK, Australia, and Canada the left are pushing these authoritarian laws through.

You’ll have to use it to express your opinions online. That’s the problem, and the whole point of it. They government want to know exactly what every person says on the internet.

Why don’t you use your real name on Lemmy?

and the fascists win the election

Mate….the fascists won the election. How can they push these laws and you still can’t see that?

The people who been calling everyone else fascists are the same people who have been begging every social media site, forum, and company for MORE CENSORSHIP for the last 5+ years. You wanted this because you thought it would only harm people you disagree with. You thought wrong.

You fell for their “won’t somebody think of the children?!” propaganda hook, line, and sinker. If they want suckers to let them overreach they just throw out terrorism or children as the reasons and people like you get in line instantly.

It’s not about children. It never was. It’s about getting a mandatory digital ID, where you have zero anonymity on the internet so they can keep you in line by threat of ruining your life and throwing you in jail.

All the left wing “progressive” WEF-aligned governments falling into line with fascist, authoritarianism while their supporters hilariously call the other side fascists and Nazis 🤣

This is what “progressives” calling for censorship of opposing views leads to. I hope Canadians like going to jail for criticising their government, because that’s where this leads.

There’s no software or games problem on Xbox. It gets 99% of all the games the PlayStation 5 does, and most of them play and look better unless you’ve got a PS5 pro.

The cheapest seat costs USD$1120, when most of the world is in a cost of living crisis.

There are no means for the rest of us to restric smartphone owners from filming whenever they want, are there? Should all people carrying a phone be treated as if they’re doing it all the time too?

Look, at the end of the day if you’re in public you can’t control other people being able to see you or take photos/videos of you. There are already laws around filing in private areas of public places, so nothing really needs to change.