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Germany's leader wants to end anonymity online, demonstrating ignorance of both technology and the manifestly good reasons for anonymity (e.g. person with views govt doesn't like, whistle-blowers, etc.).
He, like so many before him, wants you to get a license to speak.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/germanys-merz-calls-real-names-211340863.html
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@dangillmor Yep, many of us rely on at least some level of anonymity online. OTOH, if you see an account titled "REAL AMERICAN PATRIOT "🇺🇲🇺🇲💪🍻🇺🇲🚜🛻🇺🇲⚾️🏈🇺🇲🏅🚬✅️🇺🇲🇺🇲✅️✅️🇺🇲" you probably shouldn't believe every single thing they post with no vetting.
@dangillmor nope, not doing that
@dangillmor that's a typical fascist agenda, and as usual this is restricted to citizens. Politicians retain their rights to privacy and gain protections. Conservative parties in Germany getting fuzzy feelings about Adolf's days sometimes propose these to prove they are still brown in their hearts.
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@dangillmor there ought to be connections points with totalitarian billionaires secretly intending to remove his position
I'm German, and I loathe that man.
He is arrogant, ignorant and hasn't put in a single day of decent labor in his entire life.
He's another one of those privileged old white men who think they can just take whatever they want. He lost out on being the chancellor of Germany twenty plus years ago (Angela Merkel took him out of the running), and that has grated on he ego ever since.
Now he made chancellor and shows how utterly lacking his leadership abilities are.
@dangillmor I really wish more of these people who'd spent so much time learning rhetoric had instead spent their time on epistemology. They really need a better grasp of what's fundamentally true about the world.
"This does not lead to that, no matter how many words you use to dress it up."
They're so concentrated on being right on top of every problem that they never slow down to think it through.
@dangillmor I appreciate the issue with it, but, on the other hand, allowing accounts to be anonymous brings out the worst in bad people as they don't have to be accountable for what they say. It also makes it hard to distinguish real person from a bot.
@dangillmor A thousand years ago stupid naive me used my real name and address… Untll a guy who was stalking me drove two states to show up on my doorstep. The kicker was the cops saying they couldn’t do anything till he actually physically assaulted me.
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Let Herr Cuntellor Farty McTwatface go first.
Goddammit, why are all these decrepit geezers trying to ruin the world and the web for the rest of us, did their mothers not love them enough or something..?
@dangillmor The ruling class is angry that there is any dissent of their wars, exploitation, impoverishment, and genocide
Simply unacceptable… and potentially censorship and suppression of free speech.
So strange that the great dangers online come from the richest people in the world they’re the ones who seem to be building systems that provide the infrastructure for abuse and crime.
@dangillmor Merz is a fascist in disguise
It's one of the series:
Super privileged persons decrying that other people are not just their property and seem to have even, dare I say it, pesky rights? Like what do you mean, you don't like my super duper version of the Brave New World, how dare you?
