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IDK if it was Persona, but when I tried to sign up last year, they demanded I send a copy o fmy photo ID to a 3rd party identity broker. I refused, and did not sign up. Given the recent huge breaches of photo ID databases, I feel kinda vindicated about that.
I started to sign up a couple years ago, maybe, and they wanted a massive amount of personal info. It never made sense to me. If I was willing to give all that out to some random company online, I wouldn’t need a privacy service.
I suppose they are going to require some KYC info. They have legal reqs they have to meet. So, I get that they must know my real identity. Still, they could do it without a photo ID given to a 3rd party identiy broker. There are other ways, which do not depend on an ID copy which every identity thief in the world wants.
Why are they subject to KYC requirements? Are they a finance company?
Good question, maybe I spoke too quick. I think they might be since they extend credit and deal with connections to the banking system. But I’m NAL. At least they are going to require a real world identity when giving out credit card numbers, which is also true of traditional card companies.
Mostly I’m OK with them knowing my IRL identity, and proving that to them. But I’m not OK with sending a digital photo of my DL to some 3rd party identity broker who tends to leak those a lot.
I hope I’m grandfathered
I say close your account before they make you hand your Id over.
Yeah. It may finally be time to completely close my gmail/google account.
Don’t promote Rossmann :/
Have you even read the website you’re linking?
I went through it, and there’s nothing of note there. It basically boils down to somebody calling a bunch of people weirdos, with some arbitrary claims, and links to irrelevant, even contradictory information.
On August 3rd, 2026, Louis posted a video about openly transgender Colorado state representative Brianna Titone, and in the YouTube comments posted a remark explaining his position on transgender issues, which can be paraphrased as “I think transgender women are men but I’m willing to overlook it if we have common cause”.
The ‘source’ provided here only links to the video. Good luck reading all the 423 comments, and figuring out which one is him saying anything close to that paraphrased statement.
They’re also calling Louis a weirdo for being an associate of Eron Wolf. And if you go to Eron Wolf’s entry, he’s a weirdo, because… he’s an associate of Louis Rossmann. Yeah, that’s makes perfect sense.
Eron is the modestly wealthy founder of FUTO, an organization that funds software projects. He doesn’t like the Open Source Definition (…)
This is one of the few technically accurate claims on the page, but it’s manipulative. The relevant part of FULU’s statement is:
Our use of the term “open source” thus far has been not out of carelessness, but out of disdain for OSI approved licenses which nevertheless allow developers to be exploited by large corporate interests. The OSI, an organization with confidential charter members and large corporate sponsors, does not have any legal right to say what is and is not “open source”. It is arrogant of them to lay claim to the definition.
I think it’s perfectly reasonable.
I’m guessing the website author is hoping you won’t actually click any of the links, because none of them support their claims or the points they’re trying to make.
I’d say this just looks like a billionaire-funded smear campaign.
It’s that comment:
He’s got his own opinion and points out that it’s his opinion and irrelevant to the work of said politician and that it’s not his place to force his opinion on anyone
Honestly doesn’t seem like a huge deal to me. Who cares what he thinks as long as he respect other people’s right to their own opinion and doesn’t try to police anyone’s gender
It’s still transphobic. Less reactionary, sure, but transphobic.
FUCK
FUCK indeed. Now I guess I need to find an alternative. Fuck all this id verification bullshit.
Get a second ID for all this nonsense, and sleep easy at night.
A second ID from where may I ask?
New thing called AI. People’s names and adresses are public record in many places if they own their home. Have at it.
using stolen/leaked ids as your own is a felony on many (most? all?) places. don’t know what ai has to do with it.
but just fyi so you don’t get arrested or anything.
