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📲 Playing With the Devil: Philippines and Thailand push for with mandatory social media account verification.

  • Writer: Manushya Foundation
    Manushya Foundation
  • 3 days ago
  • 1 min read

📲 Can you imagine showing your face & ID just to keep your social media account? That’s what the Philippines and Thailand are pushing for with mandatory social media account verification.


While promises of “online safety” and “battling disinformation” look good on paper, we must treat it for what this truly is: an extension of state surveillance and a deliberate attack on political freedoms.


As Manushya Foundation’s Digital Rights Advisor Jean Linis-Dinco highlights in our blog, “Civil societies that play with the idea of breaking anonymity in order to solve the problem of misinformation are rehearsing a dangerous illusion. Once the doors have opened, no amount of ‘guardrails’ will stop the expansion of surveillance.” ✊


👉 Read the full article at: bit.ly/KeepAnonOL


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