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> In short, I don't want to live in a society where everyone is anonymous. You wear a name tag to the pub, or supermarket?

eurasiantiger 4y ago
You don’t keep your phone with you?
- m-p-3 4y ago
  Or always pay cash?
  - eurasiantiger 4y ago
    That doesn’t help if every other phone in the vicinity of the business gets a ping from your phone.
throwthroyaboat 4y ago
Being gratuitously anti-social in a pub or supermarket already has consequences, name tags or not (you'll get kicked out). It doesn't matter if people know your name or not, they'll recognize your face, and you might not be welcome back. Being gratuitously anti-social online might also have consequences (your account gets banned), but if creating another anonymous account is free and easy, then the consequences are trivially ignored. You could make a distinction between anonymity and ease-of-creating-new-accounts, but usually the two are tied together.
RandomBK 4y ago
No, but I also don't wear a mask that covers my face and I don't use a voice changer to scramble my speech. In meatspace, people use different modes of identification than just a name, so names aren't as important to figuring out who's who.
riffic 4y ago
the cameras that track your every movement inside a supermarket (plus the software that labels your image with a unique identifier) have you pinned down pretty well already, no need for nametags.
- aaaaaaaaata 4y ago
  Only in some places.
  - riffic 4y ago
    more places than you would expect though.
- ChrisMarshallNY 4y ago
  Don’t forget the Bluetooth beacon trackers. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/14/opinion/bluetooth-wireless-tracking-privacy.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/14/opinion/bluet...
jnovek 4y ago
I don’t, yet I am still not anonymous. If someone at the supermarket asked me my name I would tell them.
apricot 4y ago
> You wear a name tag to the pub, or supermarket? Yes, but I don't realize it.

eurasiantiger 4y ago

You don’t keep your phone with you?

m-p-3 4y ago
Or always pay cash?
- eurasiantiger 4y ago
  That doesn’t help if every other phone in the vicinity of the business gets a ping from your phone.

throwthroyaboat 4y ago

Being gratuitously anti-social in a pub or supermarket already has consequences, name tags or not (you'll get kicked out). It doesn't matter if people know your name or not, they'll recognize your face, and you might not be welcome back. Being gratuitously anti-social online might also have consequences (your account gets banned), but if creating another anonymous account is free and easy, then the consequences are trivially ignored. You could make a distinction between anonymity and ease-of-creating-new-accounts, but usually the two are tied together.

RandomBK 4y ago

No, but I also don't wear a mask that covers my face and I don't use a voice changer to scramble my speech. In meatspace, people use different modes of identification than just a name, so names aren't as important to figuring out who's who.

riffic 4y ago

the cameras that track your every movement inside a supermarket (plus the software that labels your image with a unique identifier) have you pinned down pretty well already, no need for nametags.

aaaaaaaaata 4y ago
Only in some places.
- riffic 4y ago
  more places than you would expect though.
ChrisMarshallNY 4y ago
Don’t forget the Bluetooth beacon trackers. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/14/opinion/bluetooth-wireless-tracking-privacy.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/14/opinion/bluet...

jnovek 4y ago

I don’t, yet I am still not anonymous. If someone at the supermarket asked me my name I would tell them.

apricot 4y ago

> You wear a name tag to the pub, or supermarket? Yes, but I don't realize it.