Author: Andrew Williams
Date: 00:56:20 06/30/00
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On June 30, 2000 at 01:21:54, Vincent Vega wrote: >On June 29, 2000 at 23:13:52, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On June 29, 2000 at 20:11:57, ujecrh wrote: >> >>> >>>This is the first time in 7 years that I take part to a moderation thread >>>because I am very disapointed here. Not about this particular moderation but >>>about this rule in CCC (that I was not aware of) which forces people to identify >>>themselves. >> >> >>Sorry, but it is a _good_ policy. Anonymous posters can get away with saying >>anything they want with no fear of reprisal of any kind. What about those of >>use that use our _real_ name? Do we have to put up with nonsense with no way >>to stop it? > >So they can say anything they want without a fear of reprisal. This is called >freedom of speech. When did this become a bad thing? You don't have any right >not to be offended. I don't understand this view at all. You can't behave like this in real life. Why should this place be any different? To be clear, you wouldn't wander into a library or a church or a school or a place of work and say anything you wanted. Why should you be able to do that here? > >I believe that anybody using a real name on a public Internet forum must place >no value on his privacy. I would advise everybody that does that to just >remember that _everything_ you post will be recorded _forever_ and viewable by >_anyone_. > I believe being accountable for what you write or say is part of being an adult. >> >>In another 5 years there won't be any 'anonymous internet users'. The public >>simply won't stand for it much longer. >> > > >In another 5 years there will many more ways to use the Internet anonymously. >Look at initiatives like FreeNet. Look at popularity of encryption. Look at >uproar over web sites that track users or send out private data. Every major >message board I've seen allows handles and more and more people use them. The >"public" is more bothered by the lack of privacy than by what some anonymous >poster is saying and rightly so. > >If somebody doesn't want to hear what an anonymous poster is saying, the right >solution is technological, through personal preferences, not through wholesale >censorship. Sites like Slashdot have the system for that already in place so >there isn't even any need to reinvent the wheel. If something illegal is said, >the "real name" used with the posts here is so easy to fake that it won't make >any difference in the court. The judge will have to subpoena icdchess' records >to get the IP number and ISP's records to get the poster's identity anyway. Andrew Williams
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