That certainly is a rather moronic statement. There is a very good reason for anonymous posting or alias posting. First of all, not all governments allow free speech. We cannot even be sure that free speech will be allowed in this country much longer. Suppose the government passes hate speech laws and then searches for any comment that falls within their new demented hate laws? Suppose citizen action groups look for people to turn into the government or sue them? Suppose law suits are enacted against people who hurt other people’s feeling with their comments? Suppose employers will not hire you until they do a search on the Internet on your name to see everything you ever said about anything? Etc. The way to stop morons on the Net is for the administrator of the website or Blog to delete comments that are not appropriate.
WorldNetDaily: How to get morons off the Net: “There is not one good reason for any website, left or right, or non-political, to allow people to avoid identifying themselves. Anyone interested in serious political discourse, or in merely lowering the hate levels in our country, should welcome the banning of anonymous postings. ”
Good comment, Don. I fully agree with you.
By the way, in South Korea when you register an account at portal sites like Naver, Daum or Yahoo! Korea, you have to enter your citizen registration number which is something every South Korean citizen has. Basically that means you hardly have any absolute anonimity left. I don’t know if this is in effect already but I do recall reading there were plans to require people posting comments to also enter their registration number so they can get identified easily. To prevent ‘abuse’, they say.
I’ve always found systems like that scary but to a large degree what the author suggested in his article is the way things are in the ROK already! I’m sure a very similar but more universal system will be used by the Beast.
True enough, if administrators would just have to delete inappropriate comments. We can’t stop people from their opinions and well, we post because we wanted to let everybody read so let’s not expect we get all a good answer of our post.