This is the most Online Brain thing I've seen in a while lately (and I am, in the main, highly sympathetic to the broad argument that our society asks for wallet names way too much)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @GabrielObray and
As someone who grew up during the "everyone online is a child pedator trying to trick you" panic, the idea that anonymity is a right and not a personal responsibility is baffling.
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Replying to @AliceNAmpersand @arthur_affect and
Yeah, really wish the victims of online sexual harassment had been afforded the anonymity they deserve.
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Replying to @GabrielObray @arthur_affect and
The fact that their abusers wouldn't give it to them is exactly the problem. And it is in the Scott case as well!
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Replying to @GabrielObray @davidgerard and
So, 1) Scott's situation is equivalent to that of children who were groomed online, and 2) Through some kind of galaxy-brained argument, children who were groomed online were harmed by that grooming because they lacked anonymity
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Replying to @arthur_affect @GabrielObray and
(Walk me through exactly how you think this works please because the usual story of a child being harmed by online grooming has nothing to do with the child being involuntarily "doxed")
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Replying to @arthur_affect @GabrielObray and
I guess a better analogy you could use here is that Scott's situation is equivalent to that of someone whose nudes have been shared in an act of revenge porn Which is a great analogy, if you're a turd
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Replying to @arthur_affect @GabrielObray and
jesus christ i've heard more coherent and plausible arguments from bitcoiners making excuses for proof of work
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Replying to @davidgerard @arthur_affect and
The whole thing feels like Gabriel Obray (Oh no I doxxed them!) decided to take the idea of an absolute right to online anonymity to its illogical conclusion.
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Replying to @AliceNAmpersand @davidgerard and
Or to its basic one? That it exists? That one's name is the most vital piece of personal information? That none of what I'm saying is controversial unless you've taken a huge-ass swig of the off-brand Kool-Aid?
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I mean what do you mean by a right "existing" Scott's name was revealed, and no one went to prison, and a lot of people don't even see why it's a big deal anyone is upset about, so it clearly doesn't exist Unless we're getting all Platonic idealism here
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