Did you want to trust a central authority for your Social Security? It’ll get censored! /s

Also everyone who criticized his Nazi salute is ableist. /s

They should just publish every SSN at once with names. That’ll make them useless as “secret” numbers and useful as identifiers.

IMHO there’s still hope in p2p mesh networking. It can’t support high-bandwidth applications, but all the absolutely critical correspondence would work.