Many countries have digital IDs already and nothing like this is happening. Digital ID has nothing to do we censorship or freezing of bank accounts. Online Safety act was introduces without digital ID. I have a digital ID but I don't have to show it anywhere.
this post was submitted on 09 Oct 2025
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Yeah I don't understand the big deal.
We've been using digital ID to identify ourselves to online government services in Australia since 2018.
Obviously I won't be using it to log in to facebook or mucky-jpegs.com but I don't really see it as a surveillance over-reach.
It's just group think. People don't like UK gov, UK gov proposed digital ID so digital ID is bad know. People keep posting this without giving it a second thought.
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You think they can't do that already? Naive...
Banks can and do jerk customers around for less than literal speech. The crypto community is full of stories from people who've had funds frozen or accounts closed for doing nothing worse than trying to legally ACH money into a vetted and regulated currency exchange. Banks think of your money as theirs, and tend to not like you moving it around too much.
I will not be participating when it does.