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In response to "No. That is not a solution, it has significant drawbacks. -- nm" by Beryllium

It absolutely is the solution. Anonymity is the flaw with the internet. -- nm

Posted by David (aka David) Oct 26 '22, 12:29

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See above link. This is a wrong take. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 26, 12:33 15
- There's literally no link in existence that would convince me otherwise. Social media should require authentication. Period. -- nm - David Oct 26, 12:36 14
  - I use my real name on Twitter, but that is a luxury that I can afford as a cishet white male tech worker. Others are not so privileged. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 26, 12:39
  - are you sure? It has a lot of citations. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 26, 12:37 12
    - There is literally nothing I believe more strongly about social media than that it requires people to put their names behind what they say. -- (edited) - David Oct 26, 12:39 11
      - Yes, but you are a cishet white male writer. You are privileged in this regard. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 26, 12:40 10
        
        I'm extremely frustrated by work and twitpocalypse right now, so I am going to bow out of this. But, David, you are fundamentally wrong here. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 26, 12:41 9
        
        Thomas Paine agrees with you. Anonymity is important to social discourse. - TWuG Oct 26, 12:52 1
        
        Thomas Paine didn't live in a world where troll farms in indigent countries can make people rich by lying to other societies. - David Oct 26, 13:09
        
        I feel *exactly* the same of your position here. I deem it indefensible. -- nm - David Oct 26, 12:48 6
        
        Out of curiosity, what would be the basis of requiring ID to social but allowing secrecy in voting, jury deliberations etc? -- nm - Max Oct 26, 13:01 5
        
        ID is needed to vote or sit on a jury. So, I don't understand your point. - David Oct 26, 13:11 4
        
        Clarifying: are you saying every social post shows the true name of the poster? or do they only need ID to use the service and can use nicknames? - Max Oct 26, 13:14 3
        
        If you say anything in public today, someone can record it on a smartphone, right? Why should social media offer more protection than real life? - David Oct 26, 13:30 2
        
        To Bery's point, there are plenty of murderous people who would are proud to identify online. It's content, not the name. - Max Oct 26, 13:42 1
        
        You can't write rules for the criminals. That's the whole point. They just keep breaking the laws in more brazen ways. - David Oct 26, 13:44
it'll also get lots of people killed -- nm - decline Oct 26, 12:30

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