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Anonymity is required to maintain freedom of speech. It provides a route for any adult to be the child that calls out the emperors new clothes. The sad part i
by vokep 8y ago
Anonymity is required to maintain freedom of speech. It provides a route for any adult to be the child that calls out the emperors new clothes.
The sad part is yes, it also enables bad people to do bad things without consequence, however, that is the bet that we make. That the bad people doing their bad shit, is a small price to pay to prevent bad people in power from doing very very bad shit
- analyst74 8y agoIt's not anonymity that protected freedom of speech, but people who believe in free speech, represented by supreme court that is protecting it. And when it comes to overthrowing corrupt ruling class, do people seriously believe anonymously complaining online is going to do anything?
- sleepybrett 8y agoOne could argue that anonymous complaining and accusations contributed to Trumps election. How many of those 'anonymous americans' (who were concered about the emails, or spouting off about clinton having parkinsons, or bernie or busters, etc etc) were not americans, but non-americans or bots/sockpuppets created to amplify the signal of a vocal minority of americans or non-americans. Because of platforms that are largely anonymous you can never know if an anonymous user is your next door neighbor or a bot tied to the marketing arm of some product you might be interested in or the agent of a foreign government. An interesting concept might be a social network where all users are verified and their profile contains only general information about them, letting you know if their opinion matters or is misleading.