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@mbjunior When got short form birth certificate for kid, was informed that it would not be accepted as valid ID by gov't to get long form
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the crap? isnt the point of a birth certificate gov't id?
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@laurelrusswurm @mbjunior That's just stupid. All a birth certificate does is record that certain individuals verify your birth.
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@laurelrusswurm @mbjunior In my view, the veracity of the individuals doing the verifying is more important than the govt approval part.
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@coyo It is a piece of plastic than can be forged. I can think of little more dangerous than a national government ID #nineteeneightyfour
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@laurelrusswurm @lnxwalt280 Here, some older football players create false birth documents in order to play amongst youngsters as one of'em.
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@laurelrusswurm @lnxwalt280 We don't have means to avoid that. A properly deployed technology would fight those frauds.
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@mbjunior @laurelrusswurm Solution isn't technology, it is finding trustworthy people to verify birth ... what birthcerts claim to do.
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In Canada it used to be legal to call yourself Whatever you liked as long as you weren't doing so to commit fraud.
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@lnxwalt280 I trusted friend named Mickey Finn over people whose real names I knew, same is true for some online anonymous folk I talk to
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@mbjunior frankly, i don't trust anyone - certainly no government - to "properly deploy" such technology
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@laurelrusswurm @mbjunior I agree. Birth cert a terrible way of trying to ensure integrity; better shot rolling dice.
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@lnxwalt280 @laurelrusswurm Seems reasonable, yea. I'll try to read and learn a bit about Canadian bithcerts, and processes involved.
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@lnxwalt280 But a birth certificate only proves a birth name, which could belong to many people; it doesn't even prove that its you
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@laurelrusswurm Indeed. Part of my point RE #birthcerts is that they don't prove all the things ppl expect them to prove.
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@lnxwalt280 very true
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