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kelnos on Nov 9, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Senators push to ditch social security numbers in ...

Certainly national IDs are a feature of totalitarian regimes, but I don't see how they necessarily lead to one. Plenty of free societies in the world have national IDs and live quite democratically.

Avamander on Nov 9, 2017 | [–]

Estonians seem to do kind-of fine. Ignoring the weak random number generation thing ofc.

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