What they're not telling you: I’m long sick and tired of corporations dominating the internet, stealing our data. Watching our every move. And then you tell me it’s about to get worse?
# THE TAKE: Web3 Age Verification Is Just Surveillance With Better Branding Here's the uncomfortable truth: decentralized identity doesn't solve surveillance—it distributes it. You've seen the pitch. Blockchain-based age verification. No corporate middleman. Your keys, your control. Libertarian poetry. Except every transaction leaves an immutable ledger. Every interaction broadcasts to the network. You think Meta tracking your clicks is dystopian? Try a permanent, transparent record of your online adolescence—accessible to anyone with chain analysis tools. The NSA didn't need centralization to be effective. Decentralization actually *helped* us. More nodes, more data sources, more signals. What you're getting isn't privacy theater. It's surveillance infrastructure with better marketing. The corporations still win. They just outsource the creep to protocol layer. Stick with your current devil. At least governments can theoretically regulate it.
What the Documents Show
Like scary fucking dystopian nightmare worse? We lost the privacy battle a long time ago. But what also happened before that was a small group of people got together to create the TCPIP.
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