Important recent context - just a few days ago House Republicans asked Wikipedia to reveal the name of some editors: https://truthout.org/articles/house-republicans-investigate-...

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Cthulhu_ 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

I can't claim I was part of the original internet users, but this is part of why anonymity was so important to them. I'm pretty open about my real life on here and other channels, and some people IRL know my real name. But I would regret it if an organization, government or employer attaches consequences to my online behaviour.

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Jean-Papoulos 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Putting bibles everywhere, removing books from libraries, now getting the names of wikipedians... They're going slowly, but they're going surely.

	▲	SlowTao 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		They have been playing the long game for decades, the speed up in recent times feels like they realised the windows was closing and they need to lock things down before many wise up.

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sirbutters 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

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