Nikki Haley walks back her demand that social media ban anonymous posters after facing GOP backlash
(abcnews.go.com)
from rob299@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world on 16 Nov 2023 03:42
https://lemmy.world/post/8316745
from rob299@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world on 16 Nov 2023 03:42
https://lemmy.world/post/8316745
Sounds like ones demands have changed, or atleast they got a hold of themselves. whatever lead to them walking back on this, it’s the end of another battle for internet privacy, but not the end of the war. As apps continue to track you in new mysterious ways behind their closed sourced software, and the governments continue to crack down on encryption. Anonymous names are important for privacy too.
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“Wait, you want me to reveal my real identity, even on my alt accounts? As a Black man, I can’t tolerate that” -white GOPers on social media
Edit: forgot the “gay” part
“Shit, if everyone knows that I play girl characters online, they’ll think I’m a trans.”
They already do man, just need to come out we accept you for who you are…. Also I need to have a few words about my past online trolling behavior
Look at this dude staring at a girls ass for 8 hours. Kinda gay.
I thought this was extra rich coming from the woman who won’t even use her real first name (Nimarata) because she fears backlash among her racist, shitbag supporters.
Oh that’s hilarious. I didn’t think about that.
Just like Rafael, I mean Ted Cruz. Who’s actually Canadian. Can you take him back Canada? Please?
Canada: “No.”
She’s really terrible at this. She got away with it when she ran for Governor in SC, because they don’t get as much coverage.
I feel pretty confident that the reason is that most anonymous bigots online are Cons, never mind the troll farms they employ to help keep themselves in power..
(E: to be clear, fuck these privacy destroying laws, just pointing out why there would be backlash specifically from the GOP)
And all those Nazi identities would be known, we know how they love covering their “proud” faces
Excerpt from the article:
I wonder how she justifies the " Life would be more civil if we weren’t anonymous" with her Republican senator counterparts threatening to fight that union lead.
She picked foreign threat actors who have been boogiemen to the American people for like 2-3 decades at least in order to not seem racist/xenophobic in this. But if the American government doesn’t have the right to impinge on the free speech of their citizens, they don’t have the right to do so to foreigners either regardless of whether their governments are an active threat.
Making them use their real names doesn’t stop them from stirring the pot. Doesn’t make Americans less susceptible to propaganda or influence from foreign threat actors.
I’m not a constitutional scholar, but is that true? Extremely skeptical of this:
It’s not like non-citizens enjoy all the rights of citizens. Why would non-citizens living in a foreign country enjoy the free speech rights of US citizens?
Technically anyone entering the country is awarded the same rights and freedoms (such as given in the bill of rights ) regardless of whether they enter legally or illegally. But anyone outside the borders of the US is not subject to the laws or government oversight of the US Government (with the exception of citizens traveling or living in other countries). So yes. Technically yes. True.
I’ll try to find a source.
Edit:
aclu.org/…/rights-immigrants-aclu-position-paper#….
“In decisions spanning more than a century, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the Constitution’s guarantees apply to every person within U.S. borders, including “aliens whose presence in this country is unlawful.”
" But once here, even undocumented immigrants have the right to freedom of speech and religion, the right to be treated fairly, the right to privacy, and the other fundamental rights U.S. citizens enjoy.”
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Has this person ever seen what a news comments section with a “real names required” rule looks like? They’re just as much cesspools as anywhere else. People don’t care whether their names are attached to their on-line comments.
yeah real name or not people are gonna be horrible to each other if they want to already
anonymity will deffo make it more desirable to for the ones who are on the edge tho
anonymity for me but not for thee
Oh look, a republican being spineless. Must be a day ending in Y.
Wait that’s even dumber, why would she think her law would impact everyone except Americans?
I interpreted it more as a “I’m willing to sacrifice all Ameircan’s right for anonymous free speech, which I do value, to take away that of foreigners too.” which is a typical braindead racist take.
Especially since it’d cause the complete opposite. They have no authority or power over citizens of other countries.