Comment by ajsnigrutin
1 day ago
For us europeans, that's nothing new... point the finger at putin/china and then do worse at home, while acting you support democracy and freedoms.
UK already did their "prove your age" act, EU is well on the way of doing it, every year they try a new chat control law, and sooner or later they'll force some kind of "real name" online, requiring identifying yourself when registering an account. And that's just the new stuff, france was pushing key escrow for many years, UK can jail you if you forget (or not give) your passwords, germany can fine you you if you use nasty words against a politician, etc.
> they'll force some kind of "real name" online
All of this is terrible, obviously, but this one has a silver lining. The web will be such a nicer place when people can't hide behind anonymity.
Facebook badly begs to differ.
That's one of the depressing things about sites with "real" (whatever that even means) name policies: turns out people will happily be virulently nasty trolls just as readily without pseudonymity
HN is a much nicer place than any Facebook group.
That will kill the open web for conversations. It will be a sterile, censored place and real conversation will move elsewhere.
Why though? When you talk to a person face to face, are you sterile and self-censored?
Yep,... no one will be able to criticize their employers anymore, nor the local government, police, etc. I mean well. .or risk losing a job or worse.
Yay! /s
That could easily work the same as in real life. Most interactions are not anonymous, but in the cases where anonymity is a requirement, that can be provided. If we can do that in real life, it's even easier online.