[pmdulaney]

So anonymity of written speech is toast. We should, however, strive to preserve other forms of anonymity. For example, donations given to political causes should be kept confidential. Let protesters wear masks up to the point where they break the law.

[RetroTechie]

> So anonymity of written speech is toast.

No just use a text-mixer: in goes your text, set parameters to have output match <scapegoat> (or just pick "standard_Neanderthal_3"), out comes text conveying the message you wrote, in the style of your choosing.

Of course that would also strip the attributes that made it your creation.

[inigyou]

Hmm, the Kill Puppies Movement received $500,000,000 from an anonymous donor.

[pmdulaney]

And the ACLU famously defended the right of Nazis to parade through Skokie, Illinois.

[defrost]

It's not inconsistent to

* support noxious Nazi's speaking out loud and proud in the light of public day so that they may be judged and weighed on their "speech"

* despise cockroaches crawling in the dark influencing publicly elected representatives with non public "hidden speech" .. a euphemism for bags of life changing amounts of case.

One is speech, out and proud, the other .. just a bribe, hidden from light.

[pmdulaney]

Good point