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It's amazing: 20 years ago, we went online to debate at will with people we would never see and who had no power over us. Now online we have to be super carefu
by danielweber 12y ago
It's amazing: 20 years ago, we went online to debate at will with people we would never see and who had no power over us. Now online we have to be super careful about everything we say lest someone who can make a decision over us be offended.
- vezzy-fnord 12y agoI actually think this illustrates an interesting evolution in our attitudes towards anonymity on the Internet. It was only quite recently in the grand scheme of things that, particularly in school computer labs, one of the major things that we ingrained in children's heads was basic web safety etiquette: never reveal your real name, street address, phone number, etc. With the advent of popular social media, holy shit has that completely turned around in the opposite direction. Now such things have been completely normalized, and we've started to talk about the "nymwars". There's also a reasonably influential segment that thinks all online communications should be done using personally identifiable information, lest someone gets trolled and has their sensibilities hurt.