Should Anonymity Be Allowed On Social Media Sites?

[youngmafbog]

I wonder how many ABers would be left if Priti acts on this? (Perhaps a poll there ED?)

Personally, I'm on the fence here a bit. On one side I see the need to be able to express your view without risk of physical attack (which will happen) but at the same time I see the problem with anonymous users attacking and smearing people with no recourse from the victim.

Thoughts Ladies and Gentlemen?


https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/priti-patel-david-amess-social-media-b1939775.html

[Khandro]

It doesn't mean that alias' can't be used, does it as here on AB? it simply means that the identity of the sender is traceable if so desired, by the police.
This imo is a good & necessary move.

It is not for example, possible in Germany to have an unregistered mobile phone as seen in movies, where criminals walk into a shop, buy & use a phone & then trash it.

[barry1010]

German criminals buy international SIM cards online from abroad.

[Peter Pedant]

Anyone who is employed has a reason to be anonymous
otherwise this about the only one that I have an alias for

I have to say employers LOVE disciplining staff for telling the truth on social media up to and including - -my boss is a gropey smelly old man - no defence to say - - - well he is!

[Untitled]

a lot of the nastiest stuff comes from published newspapers that are not anonymous - eg Katie Hopkins.... this is just a nasty way to exploit a tragedy by Priti Patel...

[Peter Pedant]

I dunno how some Abers re identify the Banned by their style

You know: if it is gormless but not totally stupid then it must be fu-fu who signed off three years ago
signed off as in thrown out

altho - - I was identified by someone at uni - 50y ago - that was a bit of a shock

[youngmafbog]

//a lot of the nastiest stuff comes from published newspapers that are not anonymous - eg Katie Hopkins.... //

Give over, just because you dont like what she says doesnt mean its nasty. If she oversteps the mark she ends up in Court. Anonymous users of Social media do not have that brake.

//this is just a nasty way to exploit a tragedy by Priti Patel...//

Eh?

[WordyGurdy]

Well this site is a lot like Twitter (or Twitface as the resident Oscar Wilde calls it). People say "Isn't this shocking/'woke'/whatever - who agrees with me?". People tell silly jokes. People ask for advice. People talk about the mundane things they're doing. But on Twitter you can follow who you want. You can mute people (retweets from their tweets won't appear in your timeline/in a list of replies to a tweet you have to choose to view theirs and until you do you don't know which muted account the reply is from.

You can block people from following you and replying, though not completely from viewing your tweets. You can mute words so avoiding tweets on any subject you want.

Basically Twitter is like a customisable version of here.

[archibaldy]

Not surprised that Pritler is up for more control over the masses but as a I read it the proposal is that the sites themselves would have the details of the account owner to give to police if required but the account itself could still be anonymous to other site users which isn't that bad a idea.

Regarding my personal anonymity Twitter is my favourite site and my name and photo on there are real and in principle I'd have no issue with this on other sites too. AB is in the main an anonymous site so I'm anonymous too, but I'd have no problem changing to a public account if everyone else did.

[Khandro]

WG: //You can block people from following you and replying, though not completely from viewing your tweets. You can mute words so avoiding tweets on any subject you want.//

How could an MP (or anyone) block an individual whom they don't know from texting them? and of course it's possible to block vulgar words (as AB itself does) but it's the construction of ordinary words into nasty sentences you can't block.

[Gromit]

It is an unworkable suggestion from someone who is tech illiterate.
It has absolutely nothing to do with the Amess case.
Politicians always exploit terrorist atrocities to give themselves more powers, and sadly that is exactly what this is.

[WordyGurdy]

I never said that blocking tweets from someone could stop them texting you, though in that case surely they'd need your mobile number. You can block an account called, say, splishsplosh as easily as one called by a real name. And as I did say you can block ANY word on Twitter - can someone give an example of innocuous words 'constructed' into a nasty sentence?

[Khandro]

//can someone give an example of innocuous words 'constructed' into a nasty sentence?//

Of course, millions of them, someone could send to an M.P. (or anyone);
"You are a miserable, lying, dirty piece of excrement" nothing wrong with any of the words, all good English

[youngmafbog]

And unfortunately many also contain threats including death threats, easy to add who should hang to the end of that and still good english

[10ClarionSt]

Pritti Useless can't even speak properly, eg:

I've done a lodda work on this. To ss er