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> The last group of people who will be thwarted by lack of anonymity on the web are "state-level actors". So you think Facebook adopting non-anonymous politica
by JoshCole 8y ago
> The last group of people who will be thwarted by lack of anonymity on the web are "state-level actors".
So you think Facebook adopting non-anonymous political ads as their policy was done because the intent wasn't to go after corporations and governments interfering with the political process? That instead, these people are the very last people who are going to be targeted?
The truth of the matter is that the first people targeted were these groups, but that they have the most resources, so may be most capable of overcoming these limits and causing harm anyway.
- cwkoss 8y agoPropagandists prefer to not use the ad system - they have hoards of sockpuppet accounts to astroturf with for free, and its more persuasive if not clearly paid speech.
- JoshCole 8y agoYeah. Really though I'd rather not get into that. People are already trying to take what I said farther than intended for it to be taken. I was just trying to point out how badly this 1995 post anticipated the future. It thought the problem would be a limited number of sociopathic trolls. Makes sense as something born out of the era. Doesn't correlate with what actually causes problems in practice nowadays.
- leetcrew 8y agoi agree that people were a bit naive in the 90s with respect to anticipating the problems with the internet, but i can't agree that anonymity is what they were wrong about. i find that people post much more concerning things on facebook pages, under their real names, than i have ever seen on sites like 4chan.