More identity verification. π For everything people use to protect their privacy.
this post was submitted on 10 May 2026
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How are they going to handle online purchase of phone plans (I've bought several that way)? Business VOIP? Robocalls routed through other countries? Answer: it's not about robocalls.
itβs not about robocalls.
Nothing was ever really about "le evil pedophiles" or "protecting children" either. Yet, using that excuse seems to work wonders with the gullible masses, including many people here, I would imagine.
Once again punishing the users abiding by the law, while rewarding the criminals. What's new.
Now wondering what will happen with my 2 Mint Mobile numbers I've had for 3-4 years, without making a single phone call. I only use them for internet access.
Wouldn't this essentially eliminate burner phones?
IDK (prob?), but more and more of the privacy structures I set up for myself are being torn down like that.
I once set up a private VOIP. I hardly ever used it. I paid on time, every month for like 4 years. Prob made like 1 call a month avg to a local biz or w/e. Suddenly one day, company demands my ID. I wouldn't give it. Service terminated. I never used it for anything bad. Not once. That never even crossed my mind. I just did not want my call history scraped and sold to data brokers.
I hate this. My ability to escape the mass surveilence is crumbling.
Try a more spiteful carrier https://www.phreeli.com/faq
Oh, thanks! I never even heard of them.
I will invstigate. Sounds kinda promising from my skim of the site.
We should sue the federal government for taking our access to a basic human need - privacy. Like I cannot unfuck shit faster than they can enshittify the world.
Like I cannot unfuck shit faster than they can enshittify the world
That's such a good way to put it. Captures my feeling perfectly.
It's so demoralising. Like trying to hold back the tide.
That'll work π
In my country, we have been made to show ID to get a SIM card for decades but the robocall problem has just been solved a few months ago. I still canβt believe it but my phone is as busy now as when I was a successful teenager: silent