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by kleer001 1779 days ago
> The purest forms of evil that we know about predate the internet.

Correct, but they didn't say that it was only available through that means.

This is a difficult and complex topic. I've been thinking about it for years.

Going from Plato's The Republic and the dialog about the Ring of Gyges, I don't think pure untrammelled anonymity is worth the possibility of the evil that can be done. Look at Twitter, psyops and the power of a hand full of people with programming chops, a chip on their shoulder and time on their hands. Empires will fall and millions will die because of the apparent mob of opinion that's really only a thin shell.