I don’t think it should be legal to anonymously create a facebook, instagram,X,tiktok,reddit account. Without having accounts traceable back to an identify illegal behavior never stops and the person is never held accountable. Online crimes but are unenforceable as long as anonymity is permitted. There is little to no good that comes from anonymously creating an account compared to the massive amounts of harm. Implementing restrictions does not affect 99.99% of the population and only filters out the tiny minority of people who represent a disproportional amount of harm on the platform.
I still think anonymity should be permitted on tor, i2p and less popular sites.
you got my upvote. thats nuts.
Do you think there is a problem with bad actors on the internet? Im not sure if people disagree that the problem exists or disagree on the solution.
there are bad actors in life. And its a problem. But you don’t want to live in a totalitarian state for fear of them. You don’t want to give up liberty and freedom for safety.
Bad actors in life are tied to their real identity if you catch them and imprison them they do not continue to commit the crime. We dont allow someone to walk into a store assault someone and then come back with a different change of clothes and do it again.
But online the can continue to commit the crime over and over with no consequences. Its not totalitarian to know who people are.
they absolutely are not. They where a mask in that scenario and no I don’t want more cctv to deal with crime.
Wearing a mask is not the same as anonymity on the internet.
Its a close enough analogy and your idea is the same reactionary type of solution.
CCTV does reduce crime and we do not have a problem of it being used against normal people. So even if it were the same you’re saying my solution would be an effective one at curbing the issue with little to no downsides except theoretical ones that upset internet schizo’s.
They are different because the robber with the mask can rob a store and when they are caught(banned) they do not come back. For internet stuff they can rob the store get banned and instantly make new accounts and do this at scale all with zero risk.
Yeah many folk have a problem with ubiquitous cameras in the public space. I think we just disagree here. If you are fine with cameras then yeah you are going to be fine with this online solution. People like myself are not fine with it at all.
As a CCTV consultant, no it doesn’t.