Oddbean

From the article: So I understand in an environment where the powerful act with impunity either because they can hide behind large institutions or because their communications and deliberations are placed off limits it’s tempting to level the playing field. The ring quite likely saved Bilbo’s life in The Hobbit, and (temporary) anonymity enabled Snowden to go public with his revelations. In fact, the anonymity of bitcoin creator “Satoshi Nakamoto” was necessary for its resilience and almost-impossible-to-replicate immaculate conception. So this is not an argument that anonymity is *never* warranted, but that it should not be the default if you’re a regular person posting what you take to be interesting, true or important in the public square.

wikileaks would not have existed without anonymity people get targeted for a range of things, one simple thing you share might be enough, for example being a jew anyway people can have multiple ids, real, fake whatever

Stephan — you obviously did not read the post. Covers Snowden, Satoshi and necessary cases for anonymity. I’m taking about the regular person posting his views in the public square. And yes, being Jewish, I myself am obviously opened up to jew-haters coming after me. But my response is “Fuck them. I stand up for my beliefs, and you insulting my ethnicity will never shut me up.”

no i did read it, you just assume i didnt, tho i get why you might i think you are making some fundamentally wrong assumptions about these things for one you dont understand doxxing, least just the word you only need malign one person, get into a long flame war etc and they might be the psycho to find out where you live and shoot you i would suggest have a read of rdrama.net and kiwifarms.net