Spanish PM Calls to End Social Media Anonymity, Force Digital ID: WEF
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At the WEF, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez calls for the end of anonymity on social media by forcing them to link all user accounts with the European digital identity wallet.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/53562405

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Well, he’d like Google+, I guess. I’m pretty happy with pseudonymity, though.

Not with authoritarians coming to power. That is a bad idea.

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Seems Chinese investments in Spain threaten to pay off. The Spanish PM starts parroting the CCP’s viewpoints on digital surveillance.

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