^^This. No identifying information. Anonymity is a key component of online free speech. A leftist PR campaign brainwashed people into believing the opposite circa 2008, to the benefit of FB and Google.
A decade later, here we are. Average joe can’t even INSTALL a program that isn’t ‘approved’ on his OWN DEVICE, and anything he says online is shadowbanned and censored in a thousand different ways. He’s as unprotected from hacking and identity theft as he ever was.
People knew what the consequences of this kind of control would be back in 1995 when ‘the internet’ first took off. End User License Agreements were considered legally invalid. Anonymity was considered an essential best practice. Data retention was considered invasion of privacy, and possibly theft. Hardware locks and operating system control or monitoring of users was anathema.
Big tech managed to fool people into inverting common sense, and that infectious trend has corrupted every part of society.
^^This. No identifying information. Anonymity is a key component of online free speech. A leftist PR campaign brainwashed people into believing the opposite circa 2008, to the benefit of FB and Google.
A decade later, here we are. Average joe can’t even INSTALL a program that isn’t ‘approved’ on his OWN DEVICE, and anything he says online is shadowbanned and censored in a thousand different ways. He’s as unprotected from hacking and identity theft as he ever was.
People knew what the consequences of this kind of control would be back in 1995 when ‘the internet’ first took off. End User License Agreements were considered legally invalid. Anonymity was considered an essential best practice. Data retention was considered invasion of privacy, and possibly theft. Hardware locks and operating system control or monitoring of users was anathema.
Big tech managed to fool people into inverting common sense, and that infectious trend has corrupted every part of society.