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Nikki Haley walks back her demand that social media ban anonymous posters after facing GOP backlash (abcnews.go.com)

submitted 11 months ago by rob299@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Sounds like ones demands have changed, or atleast they got a hold of themselves. whatever lead to them walking back on this, it's the end of another battle for internet privacy, but not the end of the war. As apps continue to track you in new mysterious ways behind their closed sourced software, and the governments continue to crack down on encryption. Anonymous names are important for privacy too.

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[–] DessertStorms@kbin.social 30 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

whatever lead to them walking back on this

I feel pretty confident that the reason is that most anonymous bigots online are Cons, never mind the troll farms they employ to help keep themselves in power..

(E: to be clear, fuck these privacy destroying laws, just pointing out why there would be backlash specifically from the GOP)

[–] Bremmy@lemmy.ml 6 points 11 months ago

And all those Nazi identities would be known, we know how they love covering their "proud" faces