got anything from the internet age in your encyclopedia?
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What point are you trying to make? That anonymity invalidates a point now but it didn’t invalidate Ben Franklin?
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There literally was that, and it literally was labeled “fake news.” You think Franklin was the only person writing anonymously at the time?
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The ratio was just not comparable. If you feel that the state of media literacy, and current use of anonymity is just fine, then we should likely end the debate. I look around, and I feel otherwise. Then I throw up in my mouth a little bit.
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I’m very comfortable with anonymity, and I am not concerned at all to say arguments should be evaluated based on merit not based on the author. I’m sure there are paid shills, but one should be careful that they don’t consider everyone they disagree with a shill.
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It would be just as easy to be wrong the other way. I see great reason for honest, earnest people to be anonymous on Twitter, on the Internet, and anywhere else. Arguments based on their merit.
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In all seriousness, read the Isaacson biography on Franklin. Honestly it’s no different than today.
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agreed, but think it's worthwhile to mention that the punishment for dissent in the days of Martin Luther could have resulted in literal torture.
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I was just responding to the notion that something is invalid because someone refuses to identify themselves as the author
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sure. i just don't think it's an apples-to-apples comparison.
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Sorry, what comparison?
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The comparison of anonymity in the modern age with the necessity for anonymity in the past. I agree with the key point, anonymity can be powerful, but think anonymity is used very differently today.
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I don’t think it was always a necessity. Frankenstein was published anonymously, too. It’s correlated with controversy but anonymity doesn’t necessarily indicate anything other than an author not wanting to be identified.
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Vast majority of anonymous accounts here are here to troll and be jerks to people Austen.
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Not sure how encouraged anonymous writers will feel about citing MLK and Reagan, since both of them got shot. And, oh yeah, the "All The President's Men" guys relied on an anonymous source.
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Thomas Paine's Common Sense is one of the most important historical reads. Especially now when there seems to be such a shortage of it.
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Satoshi?
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