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How do you feel about this? (Patreon)

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2017-08-31 19:59:03
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2022-07

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I use my real name online via social media platforms anyways. As a youtuber / influencer in tech, it's how I grow my business and branding. I assume anything I put online could be public and matched to me even if I anonymized my name, so I consider that when I write comments. 

Since I have a relatively decent platform, I've also been inundated with trolls who use anonymous names to send me harassing comments, pretty much every single day. Selfishly, I see this and my immediate reaction is "good, too many jerks hide behind anonymous names to harass people to the point of committing suicide" (yup, it's a thing. It happened to someone I knew in person...).

But I also legitimately feel that people have the right to keep their names private. Whether it's to keep an employer from searching for them and using a personal bias to fire them, or it's to protect their family, etc. 

They're also considering much that we can lawfully do here in the States as unlawful (i.e. free speech), with vague lists of what is allowed, and what is not. Would "endangering national security" include having a discussion about a recent botnet hitting devices in the country? Who knows... Lots to think about here.

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China Enforces Real-Name Policy to Regulate Online Comments

If you reside in China, your Internet life within the borders will soon be even more challenging. Last Friday, China's top Internet regulator announced a new set of rules that would force citizens to post comments using their real-world identities on Internet forums and other web platforms. Yes, you heard that right.

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Anonymous

I don't think there is an easy answer here. If our internet ideals are security, privacy, and freedom, this move hurts security in some ways (your real name can give people a lot of information you may not want them to have), but helps in many ways as well. It's clearly a big hit to privacy with very little benefit I can see. It's a mixed bag for freedom, since one could no longer be anonymous or speak their mind in ways that they might not want connected to their name. On the other hand, many others have less freedom to say what they want because anonymous individuals can threaten them with less fear of being caught. I guess the situation in the US is somewhat of a middle ground; we can try to be as anonymous as our technical skills allow us to be. If somebody anonymously engages in criminal activity, the government can get court orders to break their anonymity and hope that their technical skills at remaining anonymous aren't that good. The basic problem here is that most people can be trusted with the power to stay anonymous, but some of them prove over and over again that they really can't. Governments should be trustworthy with this kind of power, but their recent attempt to get an opposition website to hand over their user logs proves they aren't.

Anonymous

Any I say all this from a position of pretty extreme privilege... there are at least 20 other people with my name living in my city, including one who is pretty politically active. Someone trying to stalk me through google would have to wade through a lot of noise.

Anonymous

"I'm Brian and so is my wife."

Anonymous

I don't leave comments....oh wait...just left one.... ;)

Anonymous

I feel as though the "Grand Experiment" of freedom is nearing its end. I thought it would last through my lifetime (I'm 64) but now I really doubt it.

Anonymous

It's been said by others far better than I can say, but anonymity is essential to ensure progress in society. Changes in society depend on people speaking privately to others. In an online forum, that privacy requires anonymity. We gather online to talk about what's important to us, with others who think along the same lines. Imagine a world where LGBTQ people could not talk to each other without instantly being outed. But we don't actually have to imagine, because China has now given us a real-world example.

Anonymous

I think we're better off with anonymity than without it. But at the same time, I must admit that I cringe and feel embarrassment for my gender when I read some of the comments that little boys have left you (I say "little boys" because real men don't act like that). I guess they think that makes up for their tiny penises. As far as search engines go and for me personally I have the same good fortune as Michael above. I live in a county where cattle, chickens, and pigs easily outnumber the humans. And even here I know of at least 5 others named "David Moore". Three of us go to the same dentist. Add to that all the thousands of "David Moore" entries from around the country. You're pretty much going to have to know at least a few very specific things about me already before you could find me in a general search.

Anonymous

This is just the Chinese communist party wanting to protect themselves. This has nothing to do with protecting the public in any way. When it comes to harrazment, it is terrible no matter where it takes place. And terrible things like Amanda Todd takes place all the time, online. All we can do and should do is stand together and out the wrong doings as they happen. If there is one or more trolls in a comment thread, we should have no problems outnumbering them if we speak up instead of looking on thinking it's not our problem. But people that wants to be anonymous should absolutely have the right to do so. I am not anonymous, my real name is all over the place. And that is my own choice, not something I had to do. What the Chinese gov. is doing is not for the right reason, its a power grab cloaked as a good thing. -Today You, Tomorrow Me- is kinda the rule I live by.

John Maloney

I use my real name as much as I can online. Being anonymous on the internet has its advantages, but it probably has caused more problems than it has prevented. Trolls hide behind their avatar online and think that that allows them to do what ever they want. Everyone has encountered trolls that think they can say whatever they want and nothing will happen to them. I streaming on twitch every once and awhile and some idiot could swat me, but common sense should deescalate that type of situation easily. I only have a few viewers and I know most of them personally, so it's really not an issue that I think will actually happen. I do use a nickname on Twitch, but it's linked to my Twitter, which uses my real name. People deserve to be anonymous if they want, but need to realize that people can still find you if you do something stupid.

Anonymous

I Generally use my real name on forums, I don't have a problem with anonymity unless it is used to harass or for illegal purposes. On the other hand, folks should just ignore the trolls, and not take what they say personally.

Don Bright

Its an unequal relationship since State authorities constantly act under cover of anonymity. States put out information to the public all the time while hiding the source of it. Sometimes this is called "white propaganda", sometimes "spin", or "talking points", to promote an agenda, but it can also be used in "leaks", especially when a government official needs to secretly pass information to a journalist in the public interest. (for example Watergate and Mark Felt). Anonymous harassment, swatting, threats, etc, should be stopped, but I hope there are ways to do it that do not involve government mandated real name policy. I.e. google, youtube, twitter, and facebook could hire security staff, like ordinary meatspace businesses have to do. But in China one of the biggest harassers is the government itself, so this policy won't stop them. The Chinese communist party itself is the biggest anonymous internet troll of all, because it literally puts people in labor camps for innocuous stuff they post online, and all of its officials act in secrecy so they have no publicly aknowledged personal responsibility.