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In response to "are you sure? It has a lot of citations. -- nm" by Beryllium

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)

Posted by David (aka David) Oct 26 '22, 12:39

and I back this up by always telling people who I am. My twitter ID is my name.

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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

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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)

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