Re:Florida House of Representatives approves bill to ban soc...
by belval on Monday January 29, 2024 @04:38PM
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The thing is, the political climate is very toxic and the absence of anonymity can have a real impact for things that are basically wrong think.
Say for example I held the opinion that immigration threshold should be lower. No matter how many non-xenophobic justifications I can put on that opinion, my possibly on H1B colleagues can and would look up my opinion on your version of Twitter and it would have a real impact on my work life.
There is a reason why we hold voting in private, it's because when boiled down to its roots, there are principles that guide your opinions they are usually non -reconciliable with someone else's opinion and we preserve harmony by keeping everyone ignorant of their colleagues political opinions. It's not a bad system, but it's one that requires anonymity
Re:Florida House of Representatives approves bill to ban soc...
by DylanDmitri on Monday January 29, 2024 @04:39PM
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Or, to post on a political forum you must have an ID. You can have and post from multiple accounts, but your id and all associated accounts can be penalized for bad behavior.
- No more bots or fake propaganda accounts.
- Illegal content, such as insults or the like, will not get published. And if it does, it will have direct consequences.
I'm also not tending towards a requirement to have all social networks ID'd, but I think that a Twitter alternative which enables a more serious discussion should exist. A place where politicians and journalists or just citizens can post their content and get commented on it, without all that extreme toxicity from Twitter.