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The reason my Facebook picture is a cartoon stick figure of Mohammed today is precisely because I refuse to be cowed by threats from barbarians. Hiding behind
by endtime 16y ago
The reason my Facebook picture is a cartoon stick figure of Mohammed today is precisely because I refuse to be cowed by threats from barbarians. Hiding behind anonymous distributed networks isn't much better than hiding behind censorship.
If free speech is only possible in anonymity, then you don't really have free speech.
- deleted 16y ago[deleted]
- invisible 16y agoI think you missed the point again. Sure - you choose to be responsible for your words. That does not mean the staff at Facebook need to be responsible as well. They are not the ones making the posts - anonymous or not! That is why I'm saying: If you are on a distributed system where no select group of individuals are responsible for the system, you will have more free speech.