Friday, December 15, 2017
Remove Anonymity???
I believe we are entering a world where people have misused the freedom the Internet provides. We are able to surf and explore the Internet without having to expose our real identity, however, it seems that this luxury has been misused and has enabled trolls to harass and assault innocent victims. Sadly this issue is still apparent here in 2017, a culture of trolling has definitely emerged in the recent years, to the point where we are accustomed to it. We allowed online trolling to go and flourish by not effectively presenting a resolution we indirectly allowed it grow. I believe the act of dehumanizing others while being apparent as long as we continue to view and hurt unfavorable towards other and as a collective society we rise above the hate and actually reach a solution. It seems like anonymity should be provoked or readdressed because it seems to have to be misused in order to begin a campaign of online attacks that could cause immense physiological harm which may lead to someone ending their life too soon. For the sake of preventing the hatred online, we may need to revoke anonymity for all for a while in order to decrease "hate speech". By holding users to their identity then we may prevent and have online trolls think twice before posting a comment that was intended to hurt the feelings of others. - Bryan Tovar
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Hey Bryan,
ReplyDeleteWhile anonymity has promoted the growth of trolls, getting rid of it may not change as much as anyone would hope. With it gone, users would not really hold to their identities because people would be able to create false identities to harass others and do the same things trolls do here. So, the hate speech would be around no matter what we do. I think anonymity should stick around for the sake of discussing ideas people would not want to talk about as themselves and find another solution to trolling.