Microsoft Chief Research and Strategy Officer calls for “internet drivers license”. 666 tatoo giveaway and apocalypic fair starting next week…

Of all the terrible ideas I’ve heard of how to “revolutionize the internet” or “make it a safer place”, Microsoft’s Chief Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie has far and wide the worst idea. His idea calls for “internet driver’s licenses” to be required by law so that the shroud of secrecy and anonymity would be no more. Regardless of your personal beliefs, anonymity and the act of speeking your mind with a faceless, nameless identity is a basic right if we so choose to act upon it.

Craig Mundie’s idea is something close to a “knee jerk” reaction — a total over-reaction to a common problem with an extreme solution. Even more disturbing however is this seemingly educated man comparing the internet to a car, saying that much the same as those wishing to drive a car need a drivers license, those looking to fully engage in online content and comment accordingly need a similar license.

Stupid, stupid stupid! I hope to god this guy doesn’t become the leader of anything important…

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