Big Tech is Demanding Our Personal Cell Phone Numbers but No One is Talking About it.

submitted by raven9 from self.Security

Whether it be Facebook, Twitter, Telegram, Instagram, Discord, Google or any of the other big corporate social media platforms, they are all in on it. They all demand your private cellphone number and they all play the same game, they lock your account under the pretext of a rule violation, and then they hold your account to ransom until you give up the goods - the cellphone number that links your online presence and everything you posted on social media to the mobile device that is well known to have a thinly veiled alternate purpose for location tracking and surveillance.

So why isn't everyone talking about this? Even if there was no nefarious intention by big tech today, they all damn sure know they are placing the noose around everyones neck for a future scenario where journalists, political activists and dissidents can be targetted by death squads like they have been so many times in other countries in the past and still are today in countries like Ukraine where their CIA/MI6 handlers openly flaunt their myrotvorets kill list website that marks people deemed to be unfriendly to the Kiev regime for the attention of their murderous enforcers like the Kraken and the SBU.

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[–]iamonlyoneman 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

zero of those are mandatory to use

[–]raven9[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Maybe not to you, but then are you elderly and therefore only minimally involved in society?

If you were actively part of todays modern generation you would understand that almost EVERYTHING in todays society requires a social media presence.

You would understand that most young people do not want to be excluded while all their friends and family, partners etc are all interacting on social media.

You would understand that they do not want to be left out of the loop while all their work collegues share information and discussion in their company's own social media groups.

You would understand when people meet for the first time and exchange social media links no one wants to be the loner weirdo that says they don't do that.

Therefore when the tech corporations hold their users social media accounts to ransom in demand for their phone number it is like like putting a gun to their head. It is saying you either give us your phone number or we will prevent you from participating in all of the above. You will be a pariah excluded from the rest of society. A second class citizen depersoned and deplatformed.

[–]iamonlyoneman 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I set up my life so i interact with people IRL and make phone calls to find out how they're doing. You should try it some time.

[–]IkeConn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I don't use social media platforms. Fuck them and the horse they rode in on.