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As the title of this video suggests, we are discussing Digital ID unfortunately yet again. I've done a number of videos recently and frankly, I'm just kind of almost tired to my core talking about this stuff. It's kind of depressing frankly to be seeing all this OECD nonsense, all this digital banking, all this biometrics; it's Orwellian. It's stuff I never thought in a million years would ever see, let alone did I ever think we would see it here in Thailand. I thought Thailand would have rejected a lot of this outright, but here we are. Now Thailand hasn't gone full bore if you will, to the to the level of for example India with respect to Digital ID. 

I thought of making this video after reading a recent tweet on X from Shadow of Ezra and there's a video associated with it. We are going to throw this up on screen, but I'll try to go ahead and put the link in the description below. I'll try to remember that, but you can go check this out over at Shadow of Ezra over on X. Quoting directly: "India's digital ID system is becoming a warning to the world. Over a billion people were forced into a biometric program that linked food, healthcare, and pensions to one ID, with devastating results. Hackers stole identities, families starved, and the elderly lost benefits. In some areas, people died after being denied rations because the system failed." Now this is one of those where I'm going to bet that the so-called cure or the so-called solution, is going to be completely off base with what the solution should be, which is they'll probably come in and say we have got to go after these hackers. And that probably means "Oh, we need more Orwellian requirements in order to do so, or we need to drastically restrict your rights online or some other thing in order to do so." 

The fact of the matter is it's the act of trying to identify, track and trace everybody that's the problem. Stop. Just stop it. I mean that's just what needs to occur here. No one has a right to just track everybody and all their little transactions, and I don't even care what the pretext is. If it’s, "Oh there's money launderers". Great. Money laundering wasn't a thing until 1987, so what are we talking about? There are their scammers; there's this and that. Look, caveat emptor, buyer beware. If people are hacking other people's accounts, and stealing their money, go after the hackers. Why is this being imposed, it's basically group punishment, which is a hallmark of Communism and Fascism, totalitarianism. Oh, we have criminals; therefore, the entire society must be punished. Everyone must have a Digital ID because scams exist, because money laundering exists. It's nonsense and now we're seeing the negative impacts of this, negative implications to the people who come under these digital IDs. 

Look, I'm not unaware; I became a Thai, I've got a national ID card. It's not tied to my food rations. Now that being said, we saw in the attempt of the prior government or I should say the prior coalition government, and their attempt to put us all on a Digital Wallet that would track and trace all of our money, tell us what we could and couldn't buy, tell us when we could and couldn't buy things. The money had an expiration date on it; they had a perimeter from which you could use the money. Clearly this is the kind of totalitarian stuff they would like to see but as we can see, there are negative implications for the citizenry not even having to do with the government itself, which is the key concern, but the citizenry in terms of “oh, if they just know the database to go get everybody's IDs, they can just hack that”. Well, how about we just not create that target, to begin with. That is maybe the better strategy. What is it from that movie, what is a War Games with Mathew Broderick where at the end of the movie, the computer program says “oh it's a strange game, the only strategy is to not play”. That's where we are at with all this digital ID. The best strategy is to not engage in it, and no, that doesn't mean people can't be identified. Yes obviously, we have identity documents; we have had for years. It's all predicated on this notion that we're somehow all blind, deaf, and dumb unless we have digital ID to track and trace everyone's transactions and control everybody effectively. Bad idea. I hope Thailand looks to India as an example of what not to do and looks at India as a warning about all the problems associated with this stuff. That being said, it remains to be seen how this all plays out. We will certainly be keeping you updated on this channel as the situation evolves.