Sounds like ones demands have changed, or atleast they got a hold of themselves. whatever lead to them walking back on this, it’s the end of another battle for internet privacy, but not the end of the war. As apps continue to track you in new mysterious ways behind their closed sourced software, and the governments continue to crack down on encryption. Anonymous names are important for privacy too.
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Has this person ever seen what a news comments section with a “real names required” rule looks like? They’re just as much cesspools as anywhere else. People don’t care whether their names are attached to their on-line comments.
yeah real name or not people are gonna be horrible to each other if they want to already
anonymity will deffo make it more desirable to for the ones who are on the edge tho
I wonder how she justifies the " Life would be more civil if we weren’t anonymous" with her Republican senator counterparts threatening to fight that union lead.
She picked foreign threat actors who have been boogiemen to the American people for like 2-3 decades at least in order to not seem racist/xenophobic in this. But if the American government doesn’t have the right to impinge on the free speech of their citizens, they don’t have the right to do so to foreigners either regardless of whether their governments are an active threat.
Making them use their real names doesn’t stop them from stirring the pot. Doesn’t make Americans less susceptible to propaganda or influence from foreign threat actors.
I’m not a constitutional scholar, but is that true? Extremely skeptical of this:
It’s not like non-citizens enjoy all the rights of citizens. Why would non-citizens living in a foreign country enjoy the free speech rights of US citizens?
anonymity for me but not for thee
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