• General_Effort@lemmy.world
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    1. In Germany, compulsory ID cards were introduced by the nazis.

    2. The internet is a communications network, analogous to the telephone or post system. Such compulsory surveillance of private communication is not part of any existing laws.

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      First versions of a personal id in Germany were introduced in 1850. I doubt the nazis introduced ids in South Africa or Vietnam.

      I also don’t think the internet is comparable to telephone or postal services. There is a whole information space on the internet simply not existing in the other two.

      You guys need to stop treating the internet as the wild west.

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        Famously free countries. Let me guess, SA used ID cards for the same purpose as the nazis?

        Not knowing how the internet is like a telephone network is exactly the problem. It’s like making laws about breaking and entering without knowing what locks or windows are.

        The internet is not lawless. It wouldn’t exist without laws, chief among them constitutional guarantees for freedom of information.