Nikki Haley vows to abolish anonymous social media accounts: ‘It’s a national security threat’::WPDE covers news, sports, weather, and local events in and around the Grand Strand, Pee Dee, and the Border Belt.
Ah yes, one step closer to a totalitarian state. Let’s go.
But she’s fine with continuing the anonymous donations to all the PACs that fund her.
lol I’d love to see how the US Government would be able to enforce such a thing.
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Narrator: “They couldn’t”
Oh fuck off, would ya?
Uh oh, social credit system coming from…the same people who bitched the loudest about the social credit system?
Always has been. I remember when the people losing their damn mind about drag were horrified at North Korea’s approved haircut list.
Someone doesn’t understand the internet…
“Every political donation should be verified by their name. It’s a national security threat,” she said. “When you do that, all of a sudden people have to stand by what they say and it gets rid of the Russian bots, the Iranian bots and the Chinese bots.”
“Verified” bot accounts incoming, lol. Looking back at Reddit, and now at X, I am absolutely certain that the only people unable to get verified accounts will be people.
Rude.
Ah yes, more of that American freedom I hear so much about as an American.
Why even bother? It’s not like anything is ever done about the non-anonymous threats we currently see. Ffs.
Don’t anybody tell her that the Fediverse exists. It might break her brain.
There are people who will defend this
There was a petition for the UK Parliament to implement what this politician wants by requiring verification for accounts (Piers Morgan was endorsing it iirc), and I believe a petition to not implement it under the pretense of it harming transgender individuals (e.g. deadnaming, having to come out to a stranger for verification).
Parliament did respond saying such legislation would stifle the freedom of expression, which is true, but it doesn’t matter when the UK has other legislation doing the same thing.
Ok as a trans person yeah we were my first thought, but my immediate second was abuse victims. Making cyberstalking easier will get people hurt, though from what I’ve seen of the far right, for some of them that’s the point.
She doesn’t have enough support for anybody to defend it.
The same people who say they have nothing to hide.
First they came for our shit post accounts, and I said nothing…
So she wants reddit and youtube like platforms to be named individuals. Is she going to then go after all the forums that still exist? If so, I guess I’ll see you guys next in a Dialup BBS.
She was probably picked as the new favorite: https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/26/donors-secretly-funded-nikki-haleys-nonprofit-00053963
Russia Isn’t on Radar for Haley at UN, She Tells Congress https://www.courthousenews.com/russia-isnt-radar-haley-un-tells-congress/
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/nikki-haleys-campaign-says-she-misspoke-when-saying-u-s-needs-to-align-with-russia (Did she though?)
I think she wouldn’t be as insane as Trump, but she ain’t great.
She’d be the W of the modern day. She’s definitely sane, and maybe she’s as evil as she’s campaigning as, maybe she’s compromising her morals for power. Either way, if she’s elected people get hurt. But unlike trump, desantis, or ramaswamy she wouldn’t bankrupt the country and implement purges. Unless of course she needs to to keep power.