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You don't need to be a targeted group for anonymity to be important, nor do you need a "valid" reason to be anonymous on the Internet. I have yet to hear a comp
by squigz 11mo ago
You don't need to be a targeted group for anonymity to be important, nor do you need a "valid" reason to be anonymous on the Internet. I have yet to hear a compelling reason otherwise.
People like to say, "Well you're not anonymous IRL" and ... well, yes, we are. We are not forced to say, "My name is X and I live at Y" when we stay stuff in public
- pixl97 11mo ago>We are not forced to say, "My name is X and I live at Y" when we stay stuff in public I mean these days you can pretty much be immediately identified by facial recognition. Not saying it's a good thing, but it is the world in which we live. If you're mad at one, then be mad that the other because this is what technology enables.
- squigz 11mo agoDon't worry, I'm not exactly thrilled about that either, but that's beside the point.
- pixl97 11mo agoNot really, the fact is technology is going to make the world really tiny and public and it's likely we can do very little about it in the end.
- squigz 11mo agoSo we should lean into it and speed it along and make those things even easier to do?
- pixl97 11mo agoIt's more like we've fell into a raging torrent screaming down river at 30km/h and the best we can do is a backstroke 1km/h upstream. I mean, I'm not saying it's impossible to slow it down or stop it, but I feel that in itself would require it's own dystopian level of enforcement as it opens up game theory to the one that defects and progresses technology as the winner in being able to control others. We flew towards the sun, and went to high, and then the sun swallowed us.