The Right To Being Anonymous Online Must Be Defended DistroTube
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Date: 2022-03-30
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CRSHCMDR
This video should have started at the Snowden quote. The young boomer, Luke smith (who has an interesting GitHub issue on his wallpaper repo), sjw schtick is pointless. -Bigotry is acceptable.- You subjected yourself to it? You might have a right to say what you want in most circumstances but people also have a right to shut that shit down. When you get called a troll, booted off social media, or socked in the mouth you can-t simultaneously cry and say oh my free speech. Freedom of speech protects you from government suppression not the will of the people. Also people shouldn-t brush of death threats. That is some privilege shit. No one is going to kill this bald white guy in America for who he is but trans people, women, and minorities are harassed and murdered regularly. People do not have a -right- to harass people on Twitter, on reddit etc, these are private businesses. Telling people to toughen up instead of trying to foster a culture of inclusion, at best just perpetuates this issue and at worst degrades the progress people have fought and died for. Freedom is subjective you have trade offs in life and the people should decide what those trade offs are. Is England less free than America? They don-t have a constitution that enshrines freedom of speech, but they do have universal health care, education, a higher quality of life and a longer life expectancy than Americans. If you go anywhere in Europe or even Canada and ask them if they feel less free than their American counterparts you-d get laughed out of the room. Your freedom is an illusionary political tool to keep you frothing at the mouth, but in reality you don-t have it. But I whole heartedly agree that online Anonymity is of the up most importance as republicans and democrats have been absolutely destroying it for years now.
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This video should have started at the Snowden quote. The young boomer, Luke smith (who has an interesting GitHub issue on his wallpaper repo), sjw schtick is pointless. -Bigotry is acceptable.- You subjected yourself to it? You might have a right to say what you want in most circumstances but people also have a right to shut that shit down. When you get called a troll, booted off social media, or socked in the mouth you can-t simultaneously cry and say oh my free speech. Freedom of speech protects you from government suppression not the will of the people. Also people shouldn-t brush of death threats. That is some privilege shit. No one is going to kill this bald white guy in America for who he is but trans people, women, and minorities are harassed and murdered regularly. People do not have a -right- to harass people on Twitter, on reddit etc, these are private businesses. Telling people to toughen up instead of trying to foster a culture of inclusion, at best just perpetuates this issue and at worst degrades the progress people have fought and died for. Freedom is subjective you have trade offs in life and the people should decide what those trade offs are. Is England less free than America? They don-t have a constitution that enshrines freedom of speech, but they do have universal health care, education, a higher quality of life and a longer life expectancy than Americans. If you go anywhere in Europe or even Canada and ask them if they feel less free than their American counterparts you-d get laughed out of the room. Your freedom is an illusionary political tool to keep you frothing at the mouth, but in reality you don-t have it. But I whole heartedly agree that online Anonymity is of the up most importance as republicans and democrats have been absolutely destroying it for years now.
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Muga_d_biker
Yes, they are indeed too sensitive. people need to take there head out there rear and stop worrying about the things that people say that doesn't matter. If someone says something hateful to an adult, that adult must be an adult and not take it too personally. Ever since I was a child I grew up hearing that -Sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me- and that's a good thing to live by because word is wind. Yes, even I get hurt by what people say but as long as they don't hurt me physically then that doesn't matter. If I set out to take away someones right to say what they wanna say about a topic then they have to right to take away my right also. And for those saying that they don't have anything to hide then take the front door off your house and remove the windows also. Or better yet go live in a glasshouse, or walk on the road naked. We all have something that we want to keep private because it's ours to keep. The same government has their dirty secrets that they don't want the public to know so why should they alone be private and everyone else public? If someone says that they wish I would die then so what that's life and the world keeps on spinning after that. But there will always be those people in the world that are overly sensitive and have that dictator blood running through there veins that tells them that they need to control what everyone else says and do.
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Yes, they are indeed too sensitive. people need to take there head out there rear and stop worrying about the things that people say that doesn't matter. If someone says something hateful to an adult, that adult must be an adult and not take it too personally. Ever since I was a child I grew up hearing that -Sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me- and that's a good thing to live by because word is wind. Yes, even I get hurt by what people say but as long as they don't hurt me physically then that doesn't matter. If I set out to take away someones right to say what they wanna say about a topic then they have to right to take away my right also. And for those saying that they don't have anything to hide then take the front door off your house and remove the windows also. Or better yet go live in a glasshouse, or walk on the road naked. We all have something that we want to keep private because it's ours to keep. The same government has their dirty secrets that they don't want the public to know so why should they alone be private and everyone else public? If someone says that they wish I would die then so what that's life and the world keeps on spinning after that. But there will always be those people in the world that are overly sensitive and have that dictator blood running through there veins that tells them that they need to control what everyone else says and do.
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lllIllIIIlII
Everyone sacrificing some privacy/anonymity can help eliminating email/online fishing. -- That is totally daydreaming in fact. Here in China we have a real world proof: Just 10 or 15 years ago, people in this country can browse the internet anonymously. However during the past decade, the government built up a huge online surveillance system and forced people to register their real names, ID numbers and other personal informations when they want to use any online services. The excuse that the government gave for legalizing the surveillance was -to reduce online fraud or crime-. But the fact was, during the non-anonymous time, the number of online and telephone scams have INCREASED SEVERAL TIMES. The reason lead to this result was simple: Companies running online services were asked by the government to collect and store people's personal informations (and pass them to police or other government agencies), but they DID NOT HAVE THE ABILITY OR INTEREST to PROTECT what they had stored. So that gave the fraud criminals a much EASIER way to get access to huge amount of personal informations.
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Everyone sacrificing some privacy/anonymity can help eliminating email/online fishing. -- That is totally daydreaming in fact. Here in China we have a real world proof: Just 10 or 15 years ago, people in this country can browse the internet anonymously. However during the past decade, the government built up a huge online surveillance system and forced people to register their real names, ID numbers and other personal informations when they want to use any online services. The excuse that the government gave for legalizing the surveillance was -to reduce online fraud or crime-. But the fact was, during the non-anonymous time, the number of online and telephone scams have INCREASED SEVERAL TIMES. The reason lead to this result was simple: Companies running online services were asked by the government to collect and store people's personal informations (and pass them to police or other government agencies), but they DID NOT HAVE THE ABILITY OR INTEREST to PROTECT what they had stored. So that gave the fraud criminals a much EASIER way to get access to huge amount of personal informations.
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it_industry
If I hear this -I have nothing to hide- my answer to that is -Those filters that some people advocate for, those are for people like you. They do this so that untechnical people like you won't ever become technical. Since if you are not technical, then you are very easy to manipulate, you are harmless and defenceless. If you are easy to manipulate then you are easy for everybody to manipulate. You do not want to be part of someone else's nasty agenda and even if you are not a bad guy, then you become a bad guy if someone smarter than you tricks you into it.-
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If I hear this -I have nothing to hide- my answer to that is -Those filters that some people advocate for, those are for people like you. They do this so that untechnical people like you won't ever become technical. Since if you are not technical, then you are very easy to manipulate, you are harmless and defenceless. If you are easy to manipulate then you are easy for everybody to manipulate. You do not want to be part of someone else's nasty agenda and even if you are not a bad guy, then you become a bad guy if someone smarter than you tricks you into it.-
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Juzu
Anonymity is the key for fighting against all kind of corruption in the government, agencies, corporations, organizations. And it's the key for securely educating yourself about the corruption and illegal activity that goes on currently on your own country, and everywhere else.
Just think about what would have happened if Stalin would have had the power that current alphabet agencies have? Ironically the parent company of Google is alphabet. It's not like they don't inform the people in their subtle ways.
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Anonymity is the key for fighting against all kind of corruption in the government, agencies, corporations, organizations. And it's the key for securely educating yourself about the corruption and illegal activity that goes on currently on your own country, and everywhere else.
Just think about what would have happened if Stalin would have had the power that current alphabet agencies have? Ironically the parent company of Google is alphabet. It's not like they don't inform the people in their subtle ways.
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Francisco
In Mexico all telecoms are siphoned by cartels who look at who is juiciest to kidnap, blackmail, tempt, etc. If you have a body you don't want nabbed, a wallet you want to keep, then you want privacy. But Mexicans don't want privacy. They want to nag about the situation their shitty attitudes compounded to, never thinking their way out. Only thinking their way to worsen it.
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In Mexico all telecoms are siphoned by cartels who look at who is juiciest to kidnap, blackmail, tempt, etc. If you have a body you don't want nabbed, a wallet you want to keep, then you want privacy. But Mexicans don't want privacy. They want to nag about the situation their shitty attitudes compounded to, never thinking their way out. Only thinking their way to worsen it.
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Amr0d
People don't deserve being anonymous on the internet if they are only there to bully other people. You shouldn't say most of the bad things in the first place and probably wouldn't if you were faceing them in real life. It also has nothing to do with -voicing your ideas- if you insult someone. You are just an internet troll that hides behind his keyboard.
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People don't deserve being anonymous on the internet if they are only there to bully other people. You shouldn't say most of the bad things in the first place and probably wouldn't if you were faceing them in real life. It also has nothing to do with -voicing your ideas- if you insult someone. You are just an internet troll that hides behind his keyboard.
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Aztrum
It's easy to stand up for anonymity when you are either one of those who benefits from it, or have never been exposed to cybercrime.
These days it's comparable to not having a way to identify yourself while going out on errands. Imagine the opportunities to commit crimes when there is no way to identify you. Now put yourself in the victim's shoes.
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It's easy to stand up for anonymity when you are either one of those who benefits from it, or have never been exposed to cybercrime.
These days it's comparable to not having a way to identify yourself while going out on errands. Imagine the opportunities to commit crimes when there is no way to identify you. Now put yourself in the victim's shoes.
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parmesan
Edward Snowden was a puppet for the system. Controlled opposition. Even though all those quotes are true, they were all written. It is their way of pushing the acceptence of the new reality. All those forces that were data mining us, were the same ones that gave Snowden a platform and made a movie about him.
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Edward Snowden was a puppet for the system. Controlled opposition. Even though all those quotes are true, they were all written. It is their way of pushing the acceptence of the new reality. All those forces that were data mining us, were the same ones that gave Snowden a platform and made a movie about him.
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Brendan
I agree with you, but I think that many people say much much more hateful things due to hiding behind an alias on the internet. I don't think this is a cause to give up privacy, but it would be nice if people wouldn't say online what they wouldn't say in person.
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I agree with you, but I think that many people say much much more hateful things due to hiding behind an alias on the internet. I don't think this is a cause to give up privacy, but it would be nice if people wouldn't say online what they wouldn't say in person.
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