Can someone send me links to studies of the utility of anonymous accounts for (positive) political mobilization? Are human rights activists in autocracies using anonymous accounts frequently? Cant autocracies figure out their true identities quickly? (serious research question)
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I haven't seen anything statistical, but anecdotally: (a) yes, they are; and (b) sometimes.
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Replying to @samagreene @McFaul and
I have a substantive and lengthy discussion of this in my book, Twitter and Tear Gas and some blog posts going back to 2011s. It’s not really but yes but no kind of situation. Big trade-offs, some of which help movements for social change at expense if individual safety.
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Anonymity doesn’t really work too well for dissent under most acute conditions but has some ecological effects in non-political spaces that may later help dissent but... anyway, in my book which has a Creative Commons copy available.
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