Author: Jeroen van Dorp
Date: 03:50:29 07/01/00
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All "fights" with words are fights in semantics. As non-native English speaker I should take extra care of my words. But anonymity is really something else than privacy. Privacy is very well possible without being anonymous. With me it happens every day. People know my name, people know where I live, but they don't know what I do at home, or what my plans are. That's the privacy you also deserve on Internet. You know (or are able to know) my full name, the country and town I live in, my provider, my e-mail address. No one has the right to use them without my consent, or use them without my knowledge- that's privacy. Anonymity on Internet is walking around everywhere, participating anywhere, without people being able to know who you are. There should be nothing wrong with that. But the reason for *my* post and *my* point of view is because we know where anonymity on Internet leads to: trolling via anonymous mail- and newsservers, ultra bad behaviour, anonymous perstering of other people online. Too bad these are the facts. We're talking Internet, not the physical world. For me that experience means that people who want to communicate with each other on the Internet should be known to each other. It is standard procedure in *my* every day's life: meeting people is introducing myself. Gone anonymity. But stay privacy. Jeroen ;-}
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