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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
Somebody get Giggles a dictionary so he can die happy.
I continue to be surprised by those who honestly believe that "removing anonymity from the internet" will somehow conjure up Big Brother in our homes, eradicate free speech, and spell the end of the world as we know it. The things you're concerned about have been here, and addressed, for years. Decades. Centuries.
Time to stop being afraid, accept that some things are a necessary evil (since unregulated people are even more evil than that), and move on.
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An end of an anonymous internet is fine if you think the internet is only useful for sharing anonymous cat pictures or copyrighted material illicitly. Unfortunately, it's also used by people expressing unpopular opinions and political dissident groups, so you know, people that have a real reason to fear government reprisal. But hey, it's not like there were any recent examples of dissident groups, say in the Middle East, using the anonymity of Twitter to organize protest movements.
What you have with a loss of anonymity is indirect censorship, which is harmful in and of itself but also a killer of creativity. Your line "...unregulated people are even more evil than that" is all the more offensive because you say use it in such an offhand way, it suggests to me a real lack of respect for your common man and an offensive discounting of freedom generally.