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Why is it important to some people to shout down other people's anonymity and desire for it? What's it to you? It's only hopeless if we give up - do that if you
by wolverine876 4y ago
Why is it important to some people to shout down other people's anonymity and desire for it? What's it to you? It's only hopeless if we give up - do that if you like, but why is it important to you that other people give up?
- rsj_hn 4y agoThe authoritarian impulse is fundamentally about controlling the behavior of others, whereas the impulse for liberty is to control your own behavior. As we continue to drift towards authoritarianism, there are many people cheering this on, revealing their true affinities. You see this with people exuberant for restrictions of cash transactions, joyous at censorship and control over communications media, exuberance over other types of social policing, etc.
- wolverine876 4y agoOui! Nobody talks about or applies what used to be fundamental American values: Freedom, all persons are created equal, every person as good as another, anyone can achieve anything. It seems like an obvious opportunity for a politician or even just a commentator, to pick up that baton. It's a well-paved path, everything is already written or you, and people really need some optimism and idealism right now.
- forrestthewoods 4y ago> Why is it important to some people to shout down other people's anonymity and desire for it? What's it to you? It's only hopeless if we give up - do that if you like, but why is it important to you that other people give up? Who said anything about desire. I have no desire to unmask people. To me it seems increasingly likely that observability and anonymity are mutually exclusive. I think it is hopeless because there's nothing you can do to stop someone from analyzing observations. We just never realized how much identifying information was contained in seemingly innocuous observations.