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Re:Meta Forced to Reveal Anonymous Facebook User's Identity by cnity on Monday July 31, 2023 @06:56AM (#36940890)
I urge you to consider the downsides of celebrating the compulsion of a platform to reveal otherwise anonymous information: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/05/uk-online-safety-bill-...
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Re:Meta Forced to Reveal Anonymous Facebook User's Identity by qwytw on Monday July 31, 2023 @01:04PM (#36945621)
Why do you think I'm celebrating anything? And again, it seems mostly tangential to the matter at hand.

I think it's far from ideal that Facebook and some other platforms force you to reveal your identity. However once they have, I don't see how can it be unreasonable for a court to able to compel them to reveal the identify of one of their users in certain cases.

I don't see how Online Safety Bill is related? It's not like the identity of anonymous posters on FB is E2E encrypted and requiring an order from a court to reveal it is not exactly the same as 'screening of all user content'..

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