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Kevin C 🎬kcarr2015@mstdn.social
Jul 20, 2026, 12:55 PM
@aral @_elena @EUCommission
I mean, if you say something bad enough in public, that can get your passport revoked.
As for the other stuff, that anonymity is usually gotten by some extra effort in real life, not granted automatically, b/c we only have our own faces. Look, if you have a good reason to do something anonymously and it's not illegal, go through the extra effort.
But as far as I can tell, the VAST use case for anonymity right now is to say something inflammatory and then hide.
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Aral Balkanaral@mastodon.ar.al
Jul 20, 2026, 12:59 PM
@kcarr2015 @_elena @EUCommission And it takes how many seconds, exactly, to block such a person (either at a moderator level or personally?) We really have to be better at giving up our hard-earned human rights.
Just look at what the Nazis were able to do with just paper-based census information in the Netherlands.
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Kevin C 🎬kcarr2015@mstdn.social
Jul 20, 2026, 1:09 PM
@aral @_elena @EUCommission
Blocking and moderation was barely an answer on small scale topical forums, it's become almost pointless when scaled to pan regional social media like this, where actors just create a new disposable accounts when the old one is toxic enough.
The response can't always be "look what the Nazis did." The truth is you aren't anonymous on the internet. If a government actually wants to unmask your identity they will.
I'm more concerned with the interpersonal interactions
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Uwe Küchleroraculix@ieji.de
Jul 22, 2026, 3:50 PM
@kcarr2015 @aral @_elena @EUCommission

There's a ton of evidence that posting under one's _real_ identity doesn't stop people from posting hate speech or direct threats. Even some EU politicians had to experience that.
"Anonymity facilitates bad behavior" is a myth.
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Kevin C 🎬kcarr2015@mstdn.social
Jul 22, 2026, 4:11 PM
@oraculix @aral @_elena @EUCommission
Yeah, but there's more evidence that it does tho, and now you're just spouting nonesense.
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Uwe Küchleroraculix@ieji.de
Jul 22, 2026, 4:14 PM
@kcarr2015 @aral @_elena
Spend a little time on X if you're brave and then come back and tell me that nonsense thing again.
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Nicole ParsonsNpars01@mstdn.social
Jul 20, 2026, 4:48 PM
@aral @kcarr2015 @_elena @EUCommission
Isn't it weird that the oligarchs attacking democracy & frying the planet can remain anonymous, but they're demanding the identity of the 99% .
https://www.businessinsider.com/senate-republicans-block-disclose-act-dark-money-donors-mcconnell-whitehouse-2022-9
It's almost like 1% billionaires are afraid.
https://gizmodo.com/body-bags-found-outside-openai-hq-as-execs-increasingly-fear-for-their-lives-2000786605
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/7/16/800070686/community/data-centers-gold-rush-or-arms-race-is-the-crazed-haste-to-build-focused-on-profit-or-conquest-ai-and-the-path-to-totalitarian-control-buynott-nbf/
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/technology-uk/article/peter-thiel-secret-society-dialog-58fgcv7dd
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/11/how-dangerous-is-peter-thiel/
https://www.ms.now/opinion/amid-musks-paranoia-u-s-marshals-deputized-his-unqualified-security-staff
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/mega-bunkers-tech-billionaires-why-builder-b2814490.html
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Andrew Deaconaadeacon@mastodon.social
Jul 20, 2026, 8:07 PM
@Npars01 @aral @kcarr2015 @_elena @EUCommission Well of course the corrupt don’t want you to know who is corrupting them, you might start getting ideas about stopping it.
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Aral Balkanaral@mastodon.ar.al
Jul 20, 2026, 8:17 PM
@aadeacon @Npars01 @kcarr2015 @_elena @EUCommission Tsk, tsk, we can’t be having that.
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