rand Posted February 10, 2016 Report Share Posted February 10, 2016 what if the internet was not anonymous mmmmmm I dont know what internet your talking about but it has always been a devoid of privacy. It was never build with privacy in mind. Not even tor or freenet / i2p is truly "anonymous" Even with end to end encryption with private keys you can still have correlation attacks and malware that can expose your real ip/mac address. If you want to be anonymous run dd on your hard drive or sudo shred -v -z -n8 /dev/sda (this will over write your main hd partition and not even governments can recover it) and destroy it then never log on to the net again while following this guide: http://www.skeptictank.org/hs/vanish.htm that would be a good start Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zanco Posted February 16, 2016 Report Share Posted February 16, 2016 Then there would be almost no white criminals. x D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lanzev Posted April 9, 2016 Report Share Posted April 9, 2016 No trolls. No "hit-n-run" racists. No piracy (i know, i know). The comments section in any site would probably clean up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gumby Posted March 10, 2017 Report Share Posted March 10, 2017 I wouldn't have mind if it was this way. I'd enjoy the equality. I'm not one filled with hatred and am a very peaceful and live by the golden rule (treat others the way you want to be treated) so I wouldn't feel at loss for needing to release my demons online. Then again there are people who do try to avoid the real world because of maybe their personality or physical flaws and get more joy out of not being judged by their physical appearance and are genuinely good people, I'd feel bad for those ones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinkmattered Posted July 1, 2017 Report Share Posted July 1, 2017 A lot of people get away with terrible things because they can remain anonymous But people can also forge incredibly amazing connections through their anonymity, because speaking to a total strange can sometimes be better than speaking to your best friend, so some parts of the internet would certainly benefit from less anonymity but it should definitely remain in other parts (also I love to torrent too much to lose my anonymity for some trolls) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanis Posted July 1, 2017 Report Share Posted July 1, 2017 We'd be fucked? I mean...maybe? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dab is a Cunt Posted July 2, 2017 Report Share Posted July 2, 2017 I think s20 South Park showed us the consequences Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xykan Posted July 2, 2017 Report Share Posted July 2, 2017 It would be the same anonymous or not. Look at Facebook and twitter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomnook123 Posted October 9, 2017 Report Share Posted October 9, 2017 If the internet were not anonymous I'd just be a lurker everywhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thefarmboy Posted October 9, 2017 Report Share Posted October 9, 2017 I'd be outside a lot more, enjoying nature... but then wouldn't everyone else, thus ruining nature? I think things probably wouldn't change as much as we think, because we are not as anonymous as we think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElementalCards Posted October 9, 2017 Report Share Posted October 9, 2017 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/28/us/politics/immigrants-social-media-trump.html What do you guys think? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaxxCatt Posted October 10, 2017 Report Share Posted October 10, 2017 4 hours ago, ElementalCards said: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/28/us/politics/immigrants-social-media-trump.html What do you guys think? Kinda like employers looking at an applicant's social media history, no big deal to me. It is a good supplement to an interview because people do lie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thefarmboy Posted October 10, 2017 Report Share Posted October 10, 2017 5 hours ago, ElementalCards said: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/28/us/politics/immigrants-social-media-trump.html What do you guys think? I don't see anything alarming about that, if you don't want people to see something, probably don't paste it over public social media. I wish we didn't live in a world where such measures are consider for the public's safety, but I don't see any rights violations here yet. Many employers do the same thing. It would be an issue if they went into people's private messages on said social media though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olympustenay Posted October 10, 2017 Report Share Posted October 10, 2017 Is it anonymous? I dont think so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yuji Sakai Posted June 14, 2018 Report Share Posted June 14, 2018 If the internet wasn't anonymous, then sites like 4chan wouldn't exist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zachimillius Posted June 17, 2018 Report Share Posted June 17, 2018 On 6/15/2018 at 9:52 AM, Yuji Sakai said: If the internet wasn't anonymous, then sites like 4chan wouldn't exist. Haha yeah they would. People openly hold heinous views and perform heinous acts with no regard to socials norms. Sites like that would be less popular but they would surely exist. Lack of anonymity is not a deterrent for some. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yuji Sakai Posted June 17, 2018 Report Share Posted June 17, 2018 28 minutes ago, Zachimillius said: Haha yeah they would. People openly hold heinous views and perform heinous acts with no regard to socials norms. Sites like that would be less popular but they would surely exist. Lack of anonymity is not a deterrent for some. Good point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King23 Posted June 17, 2018 Report Share Posted June 17, 2018 The internet is never really ‘anonymous’. But, as @Zachimillius pointed out, sites where people let out their heinous views and perform heinous acts would still exist, and lack of anonymity isn’t really a deterrent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toonami335 Posted July 24, 2018 Report Share Posted July 24, 2018 The internet isn't really anonymous. You can always be tracked one way or the other if the govt wants to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coldkestrel Posted September 25, 2018 Report Share Posted September 25, 2018 On 10/9/2017 at 12:11 PM, tomnook123 said: If the internet were not anonymous I'd just be a lurker everywhere. This is the main point. People can already post things under their real name. If someone is not posting something now, they aren't going to just start doing so if a real name was required. Some of the things posted now anonymously would still get posted, but many wouldn't. Making the internet non-anonymous would accomplish nothing but stopping a large amount of its content from being generated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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