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On the other hand, if someone is giving you death threats and you're afraid they're credible, a real-name policy gives you someone to report.
by mrtranscendence 5y ago
On the other hand, if someone is giving you death threats and you're afraid they're credible, a real-name policy gives you someone to report.
- kd913 5y agoSure, but that is why you aren't supposed to use a username tied to your real world identity. In that case, why would you care about the threats exactly? The threats caused by people like Trump, Joe Rogan, Musk, Russian bot farms, Farage, Le Pen etc... and their toxic ignorant views on Vaccines, climate change are far far worse to society than some vague inactionable death threats.
- kvetching 5y ago[dead]
- geodel 5y agoWell, that's just your opinion. If you do not like them block and move on. But yea, it is not likely that anyone of them would be following you.
- kd913 5y agoIt is my opinion. The beauty of my comment is it either holds or it doesn't in absence of my identity. I don't care if anyone follows me or not because I am not a vapid shallow person. The community decides in absence of who is saying whether my words have merit. If it doesn't, I have a healthy ability to toss my entire account and walk away.
- silvestrov 5y agoYou assume a "real name" is a unique identifier (or almost unique). In some countries a lot of people share the same full name.
- causi 5y agoHave you ever had productive results from reporting harassment and threats? I haven't. I know people who've been stalked for years with the police having full knowledge of their identity and behavior without prosecuting them.