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Recent history provides a clear pattern: When crises erupt, state and corporate power rapidly consolidate. After 9/11, the US government ushered in the Patriot Act, warrantless surveillance, and indefinite detention, all in the name of security. The 2008 financial collapse delivered historic bank bailouts and accelerated economic consolidation. In 2020, the covid pandemic normalized lockdowns, QR-code health passes, and calls for digital identity systems tied to medical records. In the wake of the Capitol riot, proposals exploded for increased censorship, AI-powered surveillance, and policing of online speech. As the author Naomi Klein outlined in her seminal work, The Shock Doctrine, elites routinely exploit crises to fast-track policies that populations would otherwise reject.
The current cyber panic fits the mold. If a catastrophic digital event were to hit—disabling hospitals, banks, or energy systems—the solution being quietly preloaded into public discourse is the rollout of global “Digital ID” infrastructure. The World Economic Forum has explicitly highlighted how global digital IDs for people and objects are essential for trade digitization and establishing a global digital economy. In its Digital Identity Blueprint, the WEF outlines a framework linking online activity, financial services, travel permissions, and even behavioral data to a single identity. But what’s sold as “security” is, in fact, the foundation of a technocratic control grid.
If implemented, Digital ID would function as a master key to everything: your money, health records, online access, and even your ability to travel. In time, it could merge with carbon quotas and social credit scoring systems like those piloted in China. An algorithm, not a constitution, would govern your rights. One wrong opinion, and you risk being shut out of society, not by police, but by code. In a world where social media mobs enforce ideological purity, public humiliation becomes the new policing mechanism. You self-censor, you self-surveil, and eventually, you self-govern—on someone else’s terms. …
Iran is also home to some of the oldest archeological sites on earth, including Persepolis and Elamite ruins that predate much of recorded history. When the US invaded Iraq in 2003, within weeks, the Iraq Museum was raided and over 15,000 artifacts vanished—many never recovered. Some believe these invasions are not just about oil or politics but about seizing control over ancient artifacts.
A war with Iran would serve two goals simultaneously. On the foreign front, it would install a Western-aligned central bank, crack open Iranian markets, and gain access to cultural and historical treasures. At home, a cyberattack blamed on Iran would be used to justify Digital ID rollouts, tighter control of online spaces, and the erosion of civil liberties—all in the name of “security.” This dual agenda mirrors what happened with Libya, Iraq, and even post-9/11 America: a foreign enemy is defeated, and domestic populations quietly lose more freedom.
Iran may not launch a cyberattack; it may not even want to. But if such an attack occurs, and the media rushes to blame Tehran, we should look deeper. Who truly benefits? Who has the capability? Who’s been laying the groundwork for decades?
The real question isn’t, will Iran hack us? It’s this: Will you surrender your freedom when they say Iran did?
You don’t even want THEM to impose a digital ID on us. That would be the true slave collar made of steel that you could not escape short of shooting! Whatever sort of skullduggery THEY have on hand for attacking Iran, it is false. Don’t fall for it!! I am absolutely convinced that the minute they say Iran attacked there will be a flood of enslavement legislation on the floor and the bought-and-paid-for politicians and treachers will have it passed without reading it, again!! Again, don’t fall for anything containing digital ID!! *FTS
The World Economic Forum has explicitly highlighted how global digital IDs for people and objects are essential for trade digitization and establishing a global digital economy.
I think that this is important though; the drive in the West for digital ID seems to be orchestrated by the WEF and you see that the closer a government is aligned, the easier these things will propagate. I don't like the conspiracy theories much, but if you lift the skirt of the theories and look what's underneath, there is definitely favor towards centralized control that can be ascribed to WEF thought. It's not a conspiracy if this is openly favored, but it's a dangerous route to walk, because we all love our freedom; even those who absolutely can't handle the responsibility that comes attached.
To counter this, I'd argue that my non-KYC, wasabi'd sats are much more essential for trade digitization and establishing a global digital economy. When accepted by my trading partner, there is no middleman that slows down my payment. No bank that can flag my tx and then I need to wait for office hours (nice if you're on the opposite side of the world) or something as screwed up as SWIFT (misnomer of the century) that just adds 3 days while your bank and the counterparty bank each earn a day interest off the payment that is gone for you, and not yet received by your trading partner. No. There is no need for ID in trade. There is need for money. Hard money. So that each party knows what they get, and they get it quickly, to not lose liquidity just so that some suits can make bank on middlemanning the economy.
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There is no need for digital ID beyond being a slave collar for the population. Do you think the motherWEFers will be wearing the same collar, the digital IDs? Once they are established, who do you think will hold the end of the chain of slaves attached to each other by their collars and the chains they represent? There are a lot of reasons to not accept those collars, aren’t there? Most of the reasons for accepting pertain to strengthening the state. FTS
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The main reason is that it is completely unnecessary? There is literally nothing to gain from it except compliance with bad solutions for made up problems.
I look at it like this: my pgp key(s) protects my identit(y/ies). This is 90s tech which is better (because I can self-issue), more secure (because it's technically algo agnostic) and definitely more private (because I only send keycerts to servers of my choosing, if any) than any of the digital ID proposals I've seen thus far.
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I don’t think that any of the digital ID proposals have anything remotely resembling security concerns involved with them. They only have control considerations. You can see how much you can trust the state with any supposedly secure data with all the data breaches they seem to generate.
You are right, personal security is best.
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They only have control considerations.
Agreed!
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Which means you have to look out for yourself by yourself. Do not depend on anything else someone else would do for you because they have other concerns than your security; like profits. Also, it seems to me, that there are a lot of companies selling their supposedly secure personal information to other companies and users.