Given that the EU has already pushed for an EU Digital Identity Wallet (which includes online ID), the UK has pushed for this, the Supreme Court has declared online ID schemes constitutional, I see no reason why eventually we won't see a situation where there will be no safe harbor... (cont'd) 1/
... while the SCOTUS' ruling didn't mandate online ID, the fact that it is considered constitutional raises the risk that if the Federal Government were to pass such a law, we'd be in major trouble. I've also noted that, when the government wants to pass a truly noxious piece of... (cont'd) 2/
... authoritarian or outright orwellian legislation, they don't take the will of the people seriously. Should the public manage to overwhelmingly prevent the law from being passed; they just end up slipping it into must-pass legislation or an omnibus bill and it is very difficult... (cont'd) 3/
... oppose. I only know of a few cases where such things have been defeated wholly or in part (an example of partially defeating an omnibus bill is the Big Beautiful Bill, the state ban on AI regulation was successfully defeated). @evangreer.bsky.social is one of the few people... (cont'd) 4/
... I know who's had any success with such matters: I'd imagine the online ID is something they might try to attach to must-pass/omnibus legislation since the ability to tie every online interaction to a specific user is clearly useful, though dangerous to the public. This must be opposed! 5/