Yeah one of the things people noticed back when GG happened in 2014 is it drove a huge flood of traffic to a "free speech, total anonymity" haven, 8chan, which later became known for being the HQ for Qanon
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Replying to @arthur_affect @GabrielObray and
It was already known previously for being a hotbed of child pornography, its main reason for existence as a "refuge" from 4chan in the first place Shockingly, when you promise to provide the strongest anonymity protections technologically possible, that's what you get
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Replying to @arthur_affect @GabrielObray and
The chans grasped that the only way to maintain anonymity is to make it impossible to maintain identity. Even Q got identified
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Replying to @sleeperjoebiden @GabrielObray and
I see chan-style anonymity as something that it's at least *possible* to grant to everyone as a universal right ("A Tor client on every laptop!") It's just not a good thing that most people would want or benefit from
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Replying to @arthur_affect @sleeperjoebiden and
And as long as meatspace actually exists and we need to actually, you know, live and do stuff in the world rather than all discoursing constantly from our IV-and-catheter-equipped Posting Pods, it isn't actually total liberation It's an asymmetric tool for abuse
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Replying to @arthur_affect @sleeperjoebiden and
All the chan anon posters have absolute power to use any online-linked tool at their disposal to fuck with anyone who *isn't* a 24/7 poster and *has to have* a real-life, trackable, persistent identity, be they an actual celebrity or just some rando who caught their attention
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Replying to @arthur_affect @sleeperjoebiden and
That's the grotesque irony of all this shit That chan boards are known for *being hotbeds of doxing* Same chuds who flip out at anyone knowing their primary email address think they have the constitutional right to post photos of streamers' houses
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Replying to @arthur_affect @sleeperjoebiden and
But anyway Pseudonymity as this absolute right, unlike anonymity, is just incoherent It's self-contradictory, it collapses as soon as you try to push it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @sleeperjoebiden and
It's not the right to just erase everything untraceably and start over periodically, it's the right to demand some things be verifiable and trackable and other things *must not* To *control* what other people notice and remember about the persona you put into the world
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Replying to @arthur_affect @sleeperjoebiden and
It is impossible to execute long-term without the *active cooperation* of everyone involved To demand it as a right is to demand control over what other people notice and remember no one really has the right to demand
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Like, people are wary of it because it's so obviously fucking abusable and so widely abused It's called "catfishing" these days, in its most extreme form, but it's as old as the Internet and has been pissing people off as long as the Internet's existed
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Replying to @arthur_affect @sleeperjoebiden and
"This is my account for harassment and racist memes, and this is my account for being a serious political thinker, and this is my account for pretending to be a teenager so other teenagers in this fandom aren't uncomfortable around me"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @sleeperjoebiden and
"And if you notice me logging into one alt when I think I'm logged into another and tell people, you are violating my human rights"
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