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“In ancient Greece, everyone could express their opinion openly and by name – they would raise their hand and share their view. This should inspire us as we shape a new digital democracy,” the minister told Euractiv on the sidelines of the Delphi Economic Forum.

  • Pappabosley@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    2 hours ago

    At least they’re being honest about it and not hiding their intentions like all the other countries, who are doing the same thing but pretending it’s to save the children.

    Will be willing to hold the advertisers on social media to the small level of accountability? Any ad should be from an identifiable real world business, and provide enough information that you could directly report them to authorities.

  • gedaliyah@lemmy.worldEnglish
    25·
    2 hours ago

    I think sometimes we forget that citizenship in ancient Greece was reserved for wealthy bloodline males who owned land and slaves, and were able-bodied and politically unproblematic.

    Sure, Greek democracy was an important first step, but it was functionally just an expansion of the aristocracy. Let’s not romanticize it overmuch.

  • brsrklf@jlai.luEnglish
    39·
    3 hours ago

    The kind of social media they know about, anyway.

    I am not ashamed of anything I say here, but I am never doing it with my full identity accessible to whomever. Basic online hygiene.

    • Zombie@feddit.ukEnglish
      13·
      2 hours ago

      I’m sorry, but all of us here on Lemmy have agreed that we need to see your official ID, a 20 second video of you turning your head left and right while blinking, a certificate of your DNA and any other relevant biometric data, a complete list of everyone you’ve ever had sexual relations with, your passwords to all online accounts, and the account number and sort codes of all bank accounts you hold.

      If you don’t provide this information within 2 hours we’ll just have to assume you’re a paedophile terrorist and terminate your access to socialising with any other human being online.

      Thank you for your attention on this matter.

      Disclaimer!

      Please do not upload any of this information! If it wasn’t obvious enough this comment is in jest! For the love of Christ burritos do not do what a fellow student at my university did and upload your password onto a publicly visible forum!

  • Spacehooks@reddthat.comEnglish
    3·
    2 hours ago

    Does this really help when ppl are already posting their real photos on social media with nazi supporting posts?

    • sunbeam60@feddit.ukEnglish
      3·
      1 hour ago

      If they’re breaking the law with racist bullshit they can at least get a knock on the door.

  • freddo@lemmy.zipEnglish
    16·
    2 hours ago

    This makes perfect sense since we have a government that does not spy on its people or political opponents, or change laws that can let you verify that they are actually spying on you.

    FYI, we have a pretty much mandatory government application that recently applied the google verification api and does not work if it has not been installed from the playstore. The application is of course closed source, has google analytics and can now only be obtained with a google account that basically requires a phone number that cannot be anonymous.

    You cannot enter a football match for example without this application. You could use a second phone and take a photo of the QR (screenshots do not work).

    • deliriousdreams@fedia.io
      34·
      2 hours ago

      In one breath you are saying you trust your government because it doesn’t spy on you but at the same time your government is trusting Google (a corp) and that companies black box technology to not leak any of your information.

      No offense but, doubt. There is no way this system can’t be taken advantage of. How is the government protecting that data? Who is responsible as steward of that data? Who do you sue when that data is compromised in a data breach?

      Sometimes it’s not about the government using that data against you (although that’s still in the realm of possibilities). Sometimes it’s about bad actors using it against you.

      • freddo@lemmy.zipEnglish
        6·
        2 hours ago

        It was sarcastic. It has been proven in court that they spy and they have for a fact, changed the law a few years back. I would not, at any chance trust this corrupt government.

  • GMac@feddit.orgEnglish
    39·
    4 hours ago

    Can’t say I’m behind the approach but it might help loosen the stranglehold that social media has on average people’s lives. I’d agree that anonymity enables greater levels of toxicity, but I think a greater problem is credibility. Its almost impossible on the internet today to know who is ‘credible’ and if we solved that problem a lot of the toxic content and misinformation would fall into the ‘not credible’ arena and we could treat like fringe fiction accordingly.