Winterbaby89

To be clear, I have no problem verifying my identity. I already did. Etsy already has a copy of my government ID and my tax ID. The problem is that now they want me to give my ID to them again, and they're using Persona for the process.

Persona was in the news recently because it's the company Discord was going to use, until all the pushback. The pushback came because Persona a) left their collected data in a publicly-viewable database and b) turned out to be collecting wayyyy more data than they said they were and passing it onto the US government (source).

Discord since went back on that. Etsy is pushing forward. I asked them, and no, there is no way to verify myself and keep selling on there without giving my data to Persona. Unlike Discord users, most sellers don't seem to care, or just accept it as "the cost of doing business". I don't. I can't believe how easily people are giving up their privacy and, yes, their personal freedoms. "They can have my data, I have nothing to hide" - the point is that nobody is entitled to your data. They are taking your data, and selling it, and getting rich off it, and you don't see a cent of that money. Why? What gives them the right? How are you okay with someone simply taking your stuff and selling it? It's yours.

(Also, you have nothing to hide until someone decides that you are hiding something because they don't like the look of you or because you said something they didn't like. Going by history, that's how that tends to work.)

Following a conversation with @duathadun about how much fun Colin's hair artist must have had with all of his different portrayals of Hook, I decided to make a pic set of some of the styles. With help from @hollyethecurious to find the episodes and input from @whimsicallyenchantedrose, @snowbellewells & @kmomof4 , we came up with these 16 styles. Seeing how that only scratched the surface, I created another one which I'll be posting separately.

(2nd post now up - find it here )

Enjoy!

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