Is it time to remove anonymity online?

Yup, but you'll still get the people with brain worms being like "omg that's GB news, not objective" etc.. despite the fact it's directly citing fairly objective data from a well-regarded organisation.
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GB News is an anti-woke brigade news station setup to add fuel to the fire. Quote the original source if you want to be taken seriously with your embedded tweets.
 
pp111 said:
You think we aren't already?

*SNIP*
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It isn't currently centralised and all linked. It would take a lot of work and verification of data/sources to put together a profile. You can already be 'anon' if you don't want to be identified. That's literally the point of this thread.
 
Scougar said:
It isn't currently centralised and all linked. It would take a lot of work and verification of data/sources to put together a profile. You can already be 'anon' if you don't want to be identified. That's literally the point of this thread.
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Not necessarily. They ( all the respective large companies ) could introduce a system where you have to prove who you are. You have an ID card like the ones the UK Government are trying to introduce for porn sites. My point is that we already lost our anonymity years ago. Complaining about it now is like complaining about banning matches after the barn has already burnt down.
My personal opinion is you lose the right to anonymity when you make a public statement. Freedom of speech, sure, but also you have to take the consequences of what you say. By that, really what I mean is that you can't break the rules of fair and free speech or you will get in to trouble. And so you should. For example, you should not be allowed to verbally abuse another person.
 
With respect, that's a weak argument. "Well we already kill wolves, what's the point of trying to protect them now?" (you can insert just about anything there).

Yeah, we definitely gave up a lot over the years, and you should be held accountable. Just because it's the internet doesn't make it free reign to break the rules as such. For me, if everything is being held accountable/recorded/tracked in a central repo... I'd probably just dump all my social media profiles and not bother at all.
 
dowie said:
Yup, but you'll still get the people with brain worms being like "omg that's GB news, not objective" etc.. despite the fact it's directly citing fairly objective data from a well-regarded organisation.
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Yes, I'm seeing that on another thread. To many people have either taken the blue pill, or don't know any better.
 
BowdonUK said:
Yes, I'm seeing that on another thread. To many people have either taken the blue pill, or don't know any better.
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The problem is they don't actually pay attention to the substance of claims, they just shut down and go into denial. I try to read a wide variety of news stories as the past few years have demonstrated quite clearly how print/online media distorts various stories and certain facts get omitted depending on which source you read etc... I don't tend to watch much TV news these days though I am aware of Andrew Doyle and the fact that he was on this new GB News channel isn't particularly relevant (people dismissing a clip-on that basis are being very naive) rather he's a fairy switched on, reasonable person who was making an argument grounded in facts/evidence vs the current hype/distorted narrative seen in some of the reporting elsewhere.
 
BowdonUK said:
After reading another story about racist abuse online, is it time that anonymity is removed?
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The online forum Quora - long a bastion of requiring a real name - has started to allow pseudonyms and stopped allowing the filtering of anonymous questions a while back. That said, I can almost guarantee that any political question asked by an anonymous or pseudonymous user is a troll.
 
Wasn't it already proven that very few if any such racist posts on social media came from anyone in the UK?

dirtychinchilla said:
I don't think that would be a good idea. But I suspect that these morons could easily be tracked down without compromising everyone else's anonymity. They're not exactly geniuses.
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Or they were already using VPNs hence why very few cases of online racism have been tracked to the UK.
 
Afghan's are wishing right now that they had used more anonymity online, times change, you can be part of the popular group one day and an enemy of the state a few years later and it's all on record thanks to big tech's obsession with data collection.

Terrified Afghans scramble to delete their digital history amid fears Taliban have seized Afghanistan's biometric database and will use it to hunt down 'enemies'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...l-history-amid-fears-Taliban-seized-data.html
 
After years of a push to digitise databases in the country, and introduce digital identity cards and biometrics for voting, activists warn these technologies could be used by the Taliban to hunt down vulnerable groups.

The biometric databases - which includes facial recognition technology - makes it much more difficult for Afghans to hide and the data could even be used to find out who their friends and family are.
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Meanwhile in the UK, so-called 'liberals' are practically begging for domestic COVID passports containing all manner of biometrics just so that their lives can "go back to normal".
 
mmj_uk said:
Meanwhile in the UK, so-called 'liberals' are practically begging for domestic COVID passports containing all manner of biometrics just so that their lives can "go back to normal".
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Sorry, what biometrics are going into a COVID passport that the government don't already have. Please enlighten me.
 
Social media companies can easily do more, for starters, they can Block the VPN Server's IP Addresses. They can use DPI (deep packet inspection) to Detect OpenVPN Traffic & Drop

Clearly not in their best interest. :(
 
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