[onecool]

I agree; and it's necessary to distinguish anonymity from privacy. Anonymity removes any accountability, and if you add privacy to that then you tend to get the worst of people.

Privacy, however, is something that needs to be strongly enforced, and that means you have complete control of what personal and private information and communication is available to third parties. Anonymity and Privacy are necessary in places (journalists, dissidents, etc), but many people tend to think of anonymity and privacy as one in the same.

Social media with anonymity allows bad actors to masquerade as whomever they want, say anything without recourse or accountability, and social engineer people at large scales. The issue is that we tend to trust people, and if those people are foreign disinformation agents then we end up with the division we have today. Social media should be private - complete ownership of your data and audience - but it should not be anonymous.

[raxxorrax]

I like anonymity and wouldn't trust a platform to identify me. I take the disadvantages that come with that. With a lot of effort you could identify me in person, but I like this effort to stay. Even intelligence service members spied on their girlfriends. A human flaw. Better to keep anonymity to the largest degree possible.

People that call for accountability are modern witch hunters in my opinion. The try to put blame on people that are probably not responsible for perceived ills.

I am pretty aware of the difference between anonymity and privacy and there is a strong correlation in many cases.