Thank you for that link. My feelings on this matter were set when I was a young child. I read about the Nazi era in germany, and why homosexuals were much les

Thank you for that link. My feelings on this matter were set when I was a young child. I read about the Nazi era in germany, and why homosexuals were much less likely to survive than jews. The answer was, ironically, due to how liberal Germany was about homosexuality in the 1920s. Many gay people came out of the closet, there were magazines and national organizations to support various groups of gay and lesbian people and their interests. When the nazis came to power, they went to the offices of these magazines and groups and got the lists of all the members, and then they went and systematically executed every one of them. Now, we don't live in a nazi regime, of course. But there are many, much less severe, things that can be done to people, from employment discrimination to harassment. The old saying, "On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog" describes a feature, not a bug. It lets dogs participate with people, without fear of being harassed by cats, or whatever. It also keeps the topic on the topic at hand, not on the question of whether dogs should be allowed on the internet. Privacy is good for the community. It is good for everybody. Even if you don't have a fascist government that wants to spy on you.