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Re:Chinese Mass Surveillance – Snowden by maltalex on Sunday December 22, 2019 @11:45AM (#21858144)
No, free speech ends when you need to be anonymous to speak freely.
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Re:Chinese Mass Surveillance – Snowden by deogeo on Sunday December 22, 2019 @01:14PM (#21858667)
Under our Constitution, anonymous pamphleteering is not a pernicious, fraudulent practice, but an honorable tradition of advocacy and of dissent. Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority. [..] It thus exemplifies the purpose behind the Bill of Rights, and of the First Amendment in particular: to protect unpopular individuals from retaliation--and their ideas from suppression--at the hand of an intolerant society.

    -- United States Supreme Court, McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission
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Re:Chinese Mass Surveillance – Snowden by jtms on Sunday December 22, 2019 @12:05PM (#21858265)
It’s both, losing your right to anonymity is a separate, but highly related rights violation (aka: right to privacy)
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