A KYC'd internet will be uninteresting to me. Nobody will post anything controversial.
We will retreat to Nostr, darknets, E2EE chats, etc. A more obscure alt internet.
And a KYC'd internet might be the end of Web2.0.
In the sense of the beginning of the end of crowdsourced content, with our clicks data-mined as the new oil.
But we have the darknets and the distributed uncensorable web3.
The Web is dead. Long live the Web.
I just saw an ad for island .io yesterday, it was explained as the “browser for business”
Since the workstation tool (browser) that I had used for years was recently sunset, the ad piqued my interest.
Well…it’s really an enterprise browser that IT gets to control…can’t do a single thing unless it’s permissioned.
I get it. Having been an IT Director in years past, security is important.
But as a society we’ve gone overboard and I think has less to do with increased risks and more to do with reduced self leadership.
We’ve abdicated our personal responsibilities to others.
This is why KYC is now the norm.
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There’s a private entity I was recently appointed the leader of and due to its private structure, getting a bank account has become a nusaince (not impossible but frustrating).
Thankfully there are several work arounds now. Penultimately, Bitcoin.
Hitting bank account road blocks has given me empathy for the unbanked and the desire to talk about Bitcoin as the solution.
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The web is dead. Long live the web!
Letz go #cybiko!
