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cromka 7 hours ago

This sounds great on paper but only if democracy and checks and balances are in order...

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stretchwithme 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The more government controls, the more checks and balances evolve into paychecks and hidden bank balances.

Government can do a lot of things to you when it controls a lot of things.

And what government is doing is harder to see when it's doing millions of things.

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Caius-Cosades 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Wouldn't accept such a piece of paper even for toilet use. Anonymity strips egos and forces arguments stand on their own merit.

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logicchains 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

>This sounds great on paper but only if democracy

Why is it great that you should be completely deprived of the right to anonymous online communication just because a bunch of people voted on it? Democracy without rights is just mob rule.

	▲	Barrin92 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		with the caveat that I think this should only apply to social media in the strong sense of that term, that is platforms where you present with an identity and that function as public squares, you having any rights is conditional on you being a citizen in the first place. Given the country in question, if you lived in a Greek polis participating in democratic debate required you to share the same national identity, anonymous-guy#500 from the polis down the street never had any rights to participate. That's not mob rule but the opposite. It's precisely in the mob where anonymity facilitates violence.