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>This sounds great on paper but only if democracy Why is it great that you should be completely deprived of the right to anonymous online communication just be

• Barrin92 6mo ago
  with the caveat that I think this should only apply to social media in the strong sense of that term, that is platforms where you present with an identity and that function as public squares, you having any rights is conditional on you being a citizen in the first place. Given the country in question, if you lived in a Greek polis participating in democratic debate required you to share the same national identity, anonymous-guy#500 from the polis down the street never had any rights to participate. That's not mob rule but the opposite. It's precisely in the mob where anonymity facilitates violence.
• cybercatgurrl 6mo ago
  with how things currently are it certainly feels like mob rule in the west. a bunch of elites set the prices on things to be unaffordable for the masses and adequate regulation is notably absent