If you could carry the current legal events back to the 90s and even the early 2010s, people wouldn’t believe you. You’re going to collect the ID of every person on the planet just to use the Internet? The future must be a dystopia. Maybe it is.
On 2026-06-22, @matthew_d_green contrasts the present legal landscape with the…
Brief
Cryptographer Matthew D. Green warns that recent legal shifts—posted 2026-06-22—would have been inconceivable in the 1990s or early 2010s. He asserts these developments effectively require universal collection of government IDs to use the Internet, framing that result as a potentially dystopian future.
Why it matters
On 2026-06-22, @matthew_d_green contrasts the present legal landscape with the 1990s and early 2010s, arguing such developments would have been unbelievable then.
Key details
- He claims current legal moves amount to mandates to collect government-issued IDs from “every person on the planet” to access the Internet, calling that outcome dystopian.