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Obviously the government can stop issuing services to a certain ID, but being run on a decentralized computing platform (plan is an Ethereum layer 2 I believe) means that they cannot stop you from interacting with other governments or with third parties.


Just like nobody could change etherum until DAO hack when it became inconvinient.

You wont solve social issues with technical solutions. But just like the DAO hack you can solve technical issues using social solutions quite easily.


Other than everything that they can do today to prevent you from interacting with other governments or with third parties like imprisoning you or worst.




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