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| ▲ | fnordlord 35 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | I know I'm in the crazy minority but I'm over anonymity at this point. I want to know who's a real person and sincerely who they claim to be.
The harms of trolling, scamming and societal mis/disinformation, for me, outweigh whatever benefit exists in anonymity. I've never assumed I was anonymous from the government anyway so really, we're just anonymous from one-another. Seems like a classic method of divide and conquer now that I think about it.
All that said, I have no idea how to safely enforce ID'ing without some kind of authority (goverment or ideally something else). | |
| ▲ | idle_zealot 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | You investigate and punish groups found to be running psyops, simple as. No need to automate the whole process with ID checks, these organizations make and spend money so the tracks are there to find. If suspected drag them into discovery and gather evidence like you would for financial fraud or criminal conspiracy. | | |
| ▲ | repeekad an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | They are often in other countries, and there are much worse crimes to focus attention on with a limited budget. This does happen and should more often, but it’s far from a full solution. | |
| ▲ | pibaker 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Sure, let's just give the state a pretext to jail anyone espousing opinions they don't like for running a psyop. Surely no government will abuse this power and brand anyone in their opposition as a psyop bot army that needs to be removed from the internet. | | |
| ▲ | idle_zealot 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | If they want to they'll do that under any pretense they can get away with. See the current administration declaring intent to treat pro-LGBT speech or anti-fascist speech as indicative of participation in terrorist groups. You just can't let a government get this bad, and the set of rules and procedures you need to reign in a tyrant are pretty different from the ones you need to keep a system stable and functioning under normal operation. | | |
| ▲ | pibaker an hour ago | parent [-] | | Right now you can in fact express pro LGBT or anti fascist opinions despite the administration's efforts to stop you precisely because there are no such regulations. Had a previous US administration thought that the US is a stable and functional democracy that can be entrusted with such a law, you will be in trouble. |
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| ▲ | jamespo an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | a 4 month old account making a bad faith argument, well I never! |
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