The ability to speak anonymously is important for free speech by eliminating the ability for others who disagree to retaliate against you if they disagree or if it makes them look bad. This has been shown to be true over and over again throughout history. The cultural impact of 4chan, 8chan, and wikileaks in keeping the focus on truth and exposing the lies and propaganda of the jews, globalists, and msm is the most modern example of this.
If there was some rule that every meme had to have the name and address of the creator in it's exif data then nobody would and every post was marked with the same then nobody would make them because then they would be harassed irl for it. The most damaging thing that people can do is dox someone, which is why even reddit prohibits it. Obviously that's not what you're asking for, I am using that as an example to support the idea that each incremental step away from anon posting has a deleterious effect on free speech.
It's fair to dislike how some people use anon posting. I think that as long as voat remains dedicated to free speech we need to keep it.
I think that's fair, but isn't just signing up with a username and password (no email necessary) pretty anonymous as it is? Not to mention all the alts people make.
Yes. I think it is still deleterious to free speech to force people to make anon alts and probably isnt the best for the site either. In practice I think that it would encourage mods to ban users and play username whack-a-mole instead of just enduring the anon posts as an inevitable side effect of valuing free speech above everything else.
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WORF_MOTORBOATS_TROI ago
The ability to speak anonymously is important for free speech by eliminating the ability for others who disagree to retaliate against you if they disagree or if it makes them look bad. This has been shown to be true over and over again throughout history. The cultural impact of 4chan, 8chan, and wikileaks in keeping the focus on truth and exposing the lies and propaganda of the jews, globalists, and msm is the most modern example of this.
If there was some rule that every meme had to have the name and address of the creator in it's exif data then nobody would and every post was marked with the same then nobody would make them because then they would be harassed irl for it. The most damaging thing that people can do is dox someone, which is why even reddit prohibits it. Obviously that's not what you're asking for, I am using that as an example to support the idea that each incremental step away from anon posting has a deleterious effect on free speech.
It's fair to dislike how some people use anon posting. I think that as long as voat remains dedicated to free speech we need to keep it.
middle_path ago
I think that's fair, but isn't just signing up with a username and password (no email necessary) pretty anonymous as it is? Not to mention all the alts people make.
WORF_MOTORBOATS_TROI ago
Yes. I think it is still deleterious to free speech to force people to make anon alts and probably isnt the best for the site either. In practice I think that it would encourage mods to ban users and play username whack-a-mole instead of just enduring the anon posts as an inevitable side effect of valuing free speech above everything else.
middle_path ago
I did like another poster's idea of making it so the anon posts can't cross over. Like if they couldn't ping other users by default.
We may actually get useful content out of anon subs this way.