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Re:The extended ‘chilling’ effect of Facebook (2016) by westmeal on Sunday February 05, 2017 @08:51AM (#13572404)
But most chans are also pseudonymous. The only difference is that by default websites such as these require some sort of alias. It's very hard or even impossible to be really anonymous on a computer network.
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Re:The extended ‘chilling’ effect of Facebook (2016) by Inconel on Sunday February 05, 2017 @09:09AM (#13572454)
I would assume that by saying the chans are anonymous, the poster meant they are anonymous between users.

Sure, the site administrator, your ISP, or the NSA may know it's you posting, but the other users of the site don't. And you don't have a site wide identity that follows you around. Unless you explicitly choose so.

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