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>loss of anonymity comes with significant drawbacks: criticizing government and powerful people becomes more difficult. How don't see how making our lives more
by Renaud 4y ago
>loss of anonymity comes with significant drawbacks: criticizing government and powerful people becomes more difficult.
How don't see how making our lives more dystopian can be a net benefit.
How many of us expose different aspects of ourselves through different identities?
Maybe most people are happy to show everyone all aspects of their lives, but I'm not, in part because who I am could get me or the people I meet in trouble, harassed, imprisoned or worse in some places.
Anonymity should remain a fundamental right. We have the right to live and expose different parts of ourselves to different audiences without overlap.
Anonymity is also a counter-power to governments. A government that knows all about its citizen is bound to abuse this power.
We see it in many democracies; elected governments enact laws that restrict freedoms to keep itself in power (Russia of course, Turkey, Algeria, but also EU countries like Bulgaria). Tools like government-issued ID that become mandatory to express yourself online are doubly dangerous: they make it easy to target those who cause trouble, and they can be used to remove means of expression (who can listen to you if you are denied an ID and there is no freedom of press to expose the abuse?).
- swader999 4y agoYep, a functioning society that benefits the most needs some form of anonymous dissent.
- bilbo0s 4y agoYou guys are misunderstanding how things are developing here. The danger is not that you'll lose anonymity. The danger is that if you use anonymity, no one will listen to you. I'd wager a lot of algorithms will just shadow ban you. This is because you become viewed, effectively, the same way as the AI agent generating brand placement tweets for Bob's Bargain Basement Bar-B-Que and Bitcoin. No one will know the difference between you and the corporate AI's. Only the verifiable humans will end up with opinions that anyone pays any attention to. It's like everything else will be a banner ad. Whether it's a banner ad or not.
- pessimizer 4y ago> Only the verifiable humans will end up with opinions that anyone pays any attention to. This depends on people valuing who is saying something rather than what is being said. I'm not saying you're wrong, but I'm saying that if we're just trading in celebrity rather than ideas that I'm pretty sure we can also create celebrity AIs people would listen to.
- Faark 4y agoYeah, we will simply use an AI to summarize the article and comment section for us and skip all the spam and crap. Jokes aside, now that i think about it, "article summaries" are kind common on reddit, but i've never seen such an algorithm used for comments, yet. Guess Up&Down-votes are still the best we have.
- swader999 4y agoI think that's always been an issue, less weight for anonymous.
- fennecfoxy 4y agoOnly if the general population _allows_ making criticising government/powerful people possible, which it currently does. Society makes things like blackmailing, etc possible too. In a truly free society we wouldn't judge each other for all the stupid stuff we do now; the majority of people are still extremely prude/immature sexually & will judge others for anything outside the norm in a heartbeat - hell even mentioning inside the norm sex stuff is still somewhat taboo. As a gay dude involved in a few fun subcultures both in & out of bed it's so refreshing to be able to be so open about sex, if only everyone else was the same, about all topics. Y'all are missing out.