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No. I’m arguing that it makes no difference whether the admins and law enforcement are working for an authoritarian regime; either way, the regime will just as
by floatingatoll 5y ago
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I’m arguing that it makes no difference whether the admins and law enforcement are working for an authoritarian regime; either way, the regime will just as readily be able to identify its citizens, voiding the theoretical protection that Internet anonymity supposedly offers their citizens.
So, then: Setting aside the theoretical value of “protecting citizens of authoritarian regimes”, what other reasons underpin the continuing support for prioritizing anonymity over the accountability of legally-protected privacy of identity, as I propose upthread?
- lambic 5y agohttps://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2017/01/05/using-real-names-online-leads-to-discrimination-and-harrassment/ https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2017/01/05/using-real-names...
- floatingatoll 5y agoUnder no circumstances do I support publishing real names for users in association with their online activity. I grudgingly concede that some will wish to do so voluntarily, but it should never be compulsory, nor should it be permissible to indicate whether or not any user’s name is the same as their legal name. As long as people can be rapidly and efficiently held accountable if they abuse others, it doesn’t matter to me in the slightest what they want to openly call themselves on any given Internet site, and I want constraints in place to ensure that “publish your legal name” is an impermissible form of direct, indirect, and/or peer pressure.