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That seems like an strangely authoritarian stance?

The Internet is a free market. There are two billion people on it in 190+ countries and who knows how many non-sovereign entities. It is incredibly diverse and it is designed to let diversity reign. Not everyone has to agree because you can just not hang out with each other.

Why would people who don't like anonymity have to leave the Internet? Can't they build a space that fits their ideals? If you don't like it you don't have to use it; in fact you can compete with your own space that is possibly better.




That's not quite the whole picture. Those 190+ countries were and are doing all they can to get the control of information flow back. If there is one urge both authoritarian and democratic governments share these days, it's deanonymizing the Internet user base. Thus any initiative to authorize people's speech online will have a tremendous backing throughout the world, and it has little to do with social market dynamics.




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