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Originally posted by Unregistered
The point was "But why is anonymity necessary?"
Not just freenet. A "secure anonymous pseudonym" can be used anywhere you have a system for anonymous posting or file sharing.
You need anonymity in order to have freedom. It's that simple.
Besides, it's a great defense for the small guy against the super power greedy types.
You should support and defend anonymity if you are a flag waiving, freedom loving person. The "press" keeps it's sources secret, and you would defend that wouldn't you? |
What 'anonymity'?
What is that? It is an illusion, and as Taliban pointed out, it is also dependent on location and activity within that location.
Everything you are saying is ignoring the simple fact that you could call yourself
Bubbles... the rest of us would know that we were talking with 'Bubbles' and could even follow up an interest in what 'Bubbles' had to say yesterday, today and tomorrow. This is no infringement of some image of personal freedom.
To anyone who either needs to know for their work or cares to know for their own interests, your IP is rarely a secret, so stop pretending that posting as unregistered is in any way superior in providing you, or anyone else, with enhanced freedom of speech.
The entire argument regarding so called freedom of speech and maintaining an inviolate anonymity is meaningless and has nothing to do with the reality of a public or semi-public system.
btw- "flag waiving" means to ignore or to do without...... To 'waive the rules'........ Try 'wave' next time.
