• HelloThere@sh.itjust.works
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    1 month ago

    The core purpose of KYC - to make it harder to launder money, and for the ultra rich to hide away their ill gotten gains - is not evil, far from it.

    The fact the very same people which benefit from a perception that KYC is evil and/or ineffective, are the same people making the decisions to penny pinch on security which directly lead to data breaches, is obviously a complete coincidence!

    • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
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      Bruh, the ultra rich have operated state sanctioned child rape islands for several decades. Do you really think KYC has any impact on their crimes?

      If so, I have a bridge you might be interested in acquiring…

    • herseycokguzelolacak@lemmy.mlOP
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      1 month ago

      KYC does nothing against rich people. Panama Papers came out and nothing happened. Law enforcement does not target rich people.

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          Terrorism as defined by whom? Because those protesting Israel are soon terrorists. Animal rights defenders. Environmental protesters especially opposing oil pipelines and the like, climate protesters, people protesting the police, etc.

          This is going to get really bad, the mask is off, they aren’t pretending to operate government according to the rules, or to be believable. The terrorists they will be targeting are those protesting the plutocracy ass fucking people without their consent.

      • DaMummy@hilariouschaos.com
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        Don’t use that example. Look up consequences of Panama Papers. At least say that nothing happened in USA, land of the corrupt, home of the slaves.

    • Broken@lemmy.ml
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      I agree that KYC isn’t inherently evil. But the way its been weaponized is.

      For instance in the telecommunications space it make total sense for mitigating spam SMS messages and Robocalls. But the carriers all sell your data for profit. They also don’t protect your data properly and are breached all the time. That’s malicious.

      So no, I won’t throw the baby out with the bathwater and agree its an oversimplification to simply call KYC evil. But I also don’t blame people when all they see is abuse and never a good and proper implementation that isn’t exploitative.