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I don't think it should be legal to anonymously create a facebook, instagram,X,tiktok,reddit account. Without having accounts traceable back to an identify illegal behavior never stops and the person is never held accountable. Online crimes but are unenforceable as long as anonymity is permitted. There is little to no good that comes from anonymously creating an account compared to the massive amounts of harm. Implementing restrictions does not affect 99.99% of the population and only filters out the tiny minority of people who represent a disproportional amount of harm on the platform.

I still think anonymity should be permitted on tor, i2p and less popular sites.

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[-] ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.org 12 points 1 day ago

I still think anonymity should be permitted on tor, i2p and less popular sites.

Anonymity for me not for thee

[-] Auth@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

No not at all they are just so small no one uses them. Most websites block their traffic so there is little harm in having users be anonymous there as long as they cant go from there to mainstream platforms to shit them up.

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