I love the idea, it covers most instances of extreme customization in Linux.

if the (US and many others) governments weren’t run by fascists I might agree, but I know that politics change and facist, homophobic, racists are always going to have a chance to be elected in a democratic (republic) system.

the main problem I have with the government doing this is that they would be the ones to define who the minoritys are. If I remember correctly the US consider veterans to be a protected class, what if a government decided to extend minority status to those that themselves (as part of their “culture”) codified intolerance to existing protected minorities (such as certain religions with respect to homosexuality)?

the law shouldn’t dictate this because that would require rigid definitions of misinformation and minorities. are Nazis minorities? What about Israelis? Or Palestinians?

is spreading a rumor misinformation? What if it is later found out to be true?

how would you ban any internet service without firewalls or routing? DNS bans are trivial to bypass and maybe I’m not thinking hard enough but I’m out of practical ways to prevent access to Twitter or meta.

Ukraine and other countries where fixed infrastructure is failing iirc benefit from having low cost Internet access.

usernames are the only form of attribution that makes sense and has ever been used (aside from email, which is again practically a username)

probably was the internal id number, but still scummy behaviour.