The Republican presidential candidate said, if elected, she will force social media companies to 'show America their algorithm.'
Nikki Haley vows to abolish anonymous social media accounts: ‘It’s a national security threat’::WPDE covers news, sports, weather, and local events in and around the Grand Strand, Pee Dee, and the Border Belt.
internet discourse would be slightly more civil if people’s real names were attached
It was that way in the very beginning of the internet (before www and during the first years of www).
Everthing was relatively civil, and most people went by real names or by mostly well-known nicknames/pseudonyms.
Then money moved in and took control. Anonymity (as opposed to pseudonymity) became neccessary sometimes.
Then huge waves of stupid people moved in and believed that they were in control. Anonymity and pseudonymity was everywhere (and hardly anyone knew the difference).
The bad news: Neither money nor stupid people have any plans to move out.
Yeah Facebook radicalized a lot of people all with their names attached. People fucking showed their face while attempting a coup. We’ve got some real fucking idiots in America
The way I feel about this is similar to how I feel about getting rid of all guns. It would definitely make the country safer on the whole, but it would also endanger the vulnerable and violate the bill of rights. It would also be government overreach.
This is idiotic but it did make me think, would you end up with like… some sort of MAD policy but for doxxing? If everyone can be doxxed then no one can be doxxed?
I wish that were true but what actually happens is some people are nicer, but asshats are still asshats. People who might have called an asshat an asshat, now just respond politely, but the asshats grow more bold.
So what you’ll get is any sense of reasonable Republican to quiet down, and the worst Republicans to speak louder.
Trump can call people vermin and Republicans celebrate. Biden responds that such language is Nazi-like, since we can’t call him an actual Nazi, and Republicans scream back that Biden is overreacting.
As long as it’s primary season and we’re workshopping far right brain farts … free guns for all kindergartners? Make dogs wear pants? NBA but for white people? Grammy category for songs about how things used to be better?
So she wants reddit and youtube like platforms to be named individuals. Is she going to then go after all the forums that still exist? If so, I guess I’ll see you guys next in a Dialup BBS.
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How exactly does she believe they’re going to accomplish this? Serious question cause it doesn’t seem possible from where I’m sitting, anonymously.
It’s not. She’s just stupid.
Unpopular opinion: internet discourse would be slightly more civil if people’s real names were attached to their Internet Hot Takes.
But yeah, have fun enforcing that, Nikki.
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It was that way in the very beginning of the internet (before www and during the first years of www).
Everthing was relatively civil, and most people went by real names or by mostly well-known nicknames/pseudonyms.
Then money moved in and took control. Anonymity (as opposed to pseudonymity) became neccessary sometimes.
Then huge waves of stupid people moved in and believed that they were in control. Anonymity and pseudonymity was everywhere (and hardly anyone knew the difference).
The bad news: Neither money nor stupid people have any plans to move out.
I dunno. I’ve seen some pretty abhorrent shit over Facebook throughout the years.
Yeah Facebook radicalized a lot of people all with their names attached. People fucking showed their face while attempting a coup. We’ve got some real fucking idiots in America
Ah yes, more of that American freedom I hear so much about as an American.
Oh fuck off, would ya?
LOL
Stupid rotten Cunt.
The way I feel about this is similar to how I feel about getting rid of all guns. It would definitely make the country safer on the whole, but it would also endanger the vulnerable and violate the bill of rights. It would also be government overreach.
This is idiotic but it did make me think, would you end up with like… some sort of MAD policy but for doxxing? If everyone can be doxxed then no one can be doxxed?
I’m game for this…Republicans would disappear from the net overnight if they had to use their real names.
I wish that were true but what actually happens is some people are nicer, but asshats are still asshats. People who might have called an asshat an asshat, now just respond politely, but the asshats grow more bold.
So what you’ll get is any sense of reasonable Republican to quiet down, and the worst Republicans to speak louder.
Trump can call people vermin and Republicans celebrate. Biden responds that such language is Nazi-like, since we can’t call him an actual Nazi, and Republicans scream back that Biden is overreacting.
As long as it’s primary season and we’re workshopping far right brain farts … free guns for all kindergartners? Make dogs wear pants? NBA but for white people? Grammy category for songs about how things used to be better?
So she wants reddit and youtube like platforms to be named individuals. Is she going to then go after all the forums that still exist? If so, I guess I’ll see you guys next in a Dialup BBS.
Terrorism enabler, Nikki Haley
Good luck
Terrible idea. Look, the nerds set up the internet and from the beginning never used their real names. There’s a reason for that.
So if these genius’ knew better, Hayley should learn from that.
“I’m an internet Originalist. What did the founding nerds think? That’s all that matters.”
I enjoy this take quite a lot and will be using it myself.
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that bitch take away her name privileges i will not associate with her