And not only from trolls. It's never been hard to flame trolls, and now it's easy to block them. Why I've NEVER used anyone's wallet name on the Internet is that people who don't have the verbal skills to be trolls can be even worse things in real life. Privacy is a very important way we fight crime.
(Uncensored speech is another way. If social media *encourage* someone to post "I'm going to livestream video of how I'm going to rob this bank," the bank will be safe! If people spew hate, you can block them, or privately share their hateful posts with others so the others will block them too, without getting into questions of censorship OR interfering with monitoring for when, if ever, they become violent.)
And finally...the Internet without both uncensored content, filtered only by individuals, and anonymity wouldn't be fresh enough to be worth paying for. It's like X now...all the big corporations paying for access may be making Musk richer, but sooner or later they'll notice that, while they're screaming at each other, no one is listening, because people who wanted to watch corporate-owned TV already *had* TV.
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dancing_serpent
Exactly!
Date: 2024-03-29 03:40 pm (UTC)(Uncensored speech is another way. If social media *encourage* someone to post "I'm going to livestream video of how I'm going to rob this bank," the bank will be safe! If people spew hate, you can block them, or privately share their hateful posts with others so the others will block them too, without getting into questions of censorship OR interfering with monitoring for when, if ever, they become violent.)
And finally...the Internet without both uncensored content, filtered only by individuals, and anonymity wouldn't be fresh enough to be worth paying for. It's like X now...all the big corporations paying for access may be making Musk richer, but sooner or later they'll notice that, while they're screaming at each other, no one is listening, because people who wanted to watch corporate-owned TV already *had* TV.