2. I'm not entirely sure what the link is supposed to prove -- would appreciate a word of clarification if you find the time. It almost feels like a dogwhistle of some kind, but A) I doubt anyone on HN is anywhere near that problematic, and B) there's no clear pattern in those companies other than "interested in ID tech", and none of the usual dogwhistle targets made the list. Also, y'know, OpenAI isn't on it...?
I guess my fundamental confusion isn't about the list and more about what "we know". Are you implying that they are against pure, unmanaged PGP for this system because... I mean, why? Because they're playing the long game to promote a verification/attestation/identification (?) technology that you think offers less stringent privacy guarantees, and thus to sell more ads in 2036?
If so, doesn't that seem like a kinda roundabout way to raise Display Ads revenue, otherwise known as "that one dying industry"?
Anyway, sorry to confuse/frustrate, I was being honest and tried to explicitly not accuse you of dogwhistling. I was making a best-effort attempt to explain my confusion, rather than just replying with "that doesn't make any sense" or something.
I guess I'll briefly elaborate just in case: "dogwhistle" above refers to a specific kind of antisemetic practice where people point at a list of companies or institutions or even just people and say something like "what do you notice?", whith the message ofc being that they're all related-to/run-by Jewish people. Again, not accusing you of that -- those people don't generally come here. But absent any other logic, I am left with confusion.
I will briefly add that this very response also doesn't help, when you very clearly imply that I am "shooting down a comment" in bad faith for some sinister purpose. It, again, comes off as conspiratorial. Why would I --a sad 30 y/o child with my real name and phone number in my bio-- be shooting this down?
I guess my overall response is that this feels like a conspiracy theory without identifying the conspiracy.