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"My priority is anonymity and freedom of expression. You're never going to be able to satisfactorily reconcile that with your priority of not making anyone feel
by st3v3r 11y ago
"My priority is anonymity and freedom of expression. You're never going to be able to satisfactorily reconcile that with your priority of not making anyone feel uncomfortable."
I'm 10,000% positive that it is possible to satisfactorily reconcile "freedom of expression" with not allowing rape and death threats. If you can't, then maybe you need to do some serious self examination.
"Surely at some point every sane person must learn to ignore things, or they'll have a heart attack trying to control every word spoken around them?"
That is extremely easy to say when you haven't had this done to you.
- Sir_Substance 11y ago>That is extremely easy to say when you haven't had this done to you. You should check my comment history dude. There's a chap named "assocguilt" who on this very site spent about two months stalking every post I made here posting snarky comments because I suggested the software industry should refuse to employ people who have job histories working for dodgy government departments. He started making references to my home city and former employer about half way through the process. Everyone gets threatened and stalked on the internet. It's like getting burgled. It happens to pretty much everyone at some point. You can let it forever destroy your confidence, or you can recognize it as an essentially random happening and move on.
- st3v3r 11y agoWhy should we allow it at all? Why should people have to accept it?
- Sir_Substance 11y agoBecause it's beyond your ability to prevent, and your inevitable failure has terrible side effects. Are you seriously tell me that facebooks real name policy has made cyberbullying less hurtful?