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Take anonymity away from people to give the power back to... people? I don’t see this benefiting anyone other than web trackers.

• mikewarot 6y ago
  Anonymity is an illusion, and it encourages bad behavior, much like road rage. Arbitrary censorship is the larger issue. If I do something illegal, it shouldn't take down everyone I ever happened to chat with, or who read or liked something I wrote once... even the Godwin's law protagonist had a few good ideas mixed in with his assured evil. Free exchange of legal speech shouldn't arbitrarily be squelched because some corporation decides their advertisers wouldn't like it. For example, a few years ago there was a great machining set of videos in which an M-16 lower receiver was machined out of a billet of Aluminum. Youtube decided that anything like that had to go, not for legal reasons, just because of... you know... whim. There was nothing wrong with the video series, it didn't promote violence, it was just a well done documentation of all the tips and setups required to do a tricky bit of work. The replacement that seems to be safe (for now) is to machine model steam engines and lathes from casting kits. Cool, but far less useful in learning the real thing. [update] The idea of learning by watching is a lot less powerful when whole areas of study are excluded randomly, for "reasons" that are never fully explained. If someone decided that hashtables and binary trees should be hidden from view, could you really teach computer science without them? It's a filter bubble of the worst sort. It keeps you from even learning what you don't know, because it can't be safely mentioned.