Online abuse: banning anonymous social media accounts is not the answer

Re:Online abuse: banning anonymous social media accounts is ... by burnafter182 on Thursday October 21, 2021 @01:33PM (#28947977)

You literally just indicated that anonymity is important. Freelancers could publish under a pseudonym - a form of anonymity to protect themselves from the public.

And I mean, there was that one time that some dude, in person at a press conference threw a shoe at George W. Bush, the President of the United States of America, he wasn't anonymous, and what level of force could've been deployed as recourse ran up to death, evidently not adequate disincentive.

I can make a victim out of myself by a few alterations in my personal narrative. I choose not to.

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Re:Online abuse: banning anonymous social media accounts is ... by slg on Thursday October 21, 2021 @02:03PM (#28948504)

This is classic victim blaming. It is the fault of the person being abused for either not being preemptively anonymous or for "choosing" to allow doxing, death threats, and the like being part of their "personal narrative"?

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