Germany's Merz calls for real names on the internet (www.yahoo.com)

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[-] 20cello@lemmy.world 56 points 3 days ago

Fuck off

[-] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 32 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It’s worked out well on Facebook. People are more civil there, right?

[-] discocactus@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Also Nextdoor

[-] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 days ago

Especially Nextdoor.

[-] anticurrent@sh.itjust.works 23 points 3 days ago

First we need to make all private communications of public officials public. Especially weasel like this ex BlackRock chairman

[-] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 27 points 3 days ago

Pfft ridiculous, there's very little verification of "real names" in meat space, so why should it be replicated on the internet? Does this fuck knuckle walk around demanding everyone he meets whip out a drivers license to prove who they are before he talks to them?

[-] hector@lemmy.today 18 points 3 days ago

These guys are doing everything possible to throw the country in the arms of the afd just in protest to this shitty status quo of selling everyone out to technofascists.

[-] horn_e4_beaver@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 2 days ago

But this is my real name.

[-] Eternal192@anarchist.nexus 12 points 3 days ago

Why? So he knows who calls him a dickhead so he can sue because we hurt his feewings awww armes häschen!

[-] Serinus@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

So that public opinion isn't shaped by a couple thousand social media accounts run from a troll farm in Moscow.

[-] GuyIncognito@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

I'm only comfortable having public opinion shaped by American intelligence agencies, not Russian ones, so we should all have to provide identification to post on the internet.

[-] Eternal192@anarchist.nexus 1 points 3 days ago

Why would they want to do anything? they just let him do his thing and he'll fuck up even more without them having to lift a finger, the opinion about him is formed because of what HE has done that can be verified anyone with access to the internet not by someone claiming that he has done something and even if you don't have internet you can read the newspaper and learn about him there.

[-] Iconoclast@feddit.uk 11 points 3 days ago

Stay on Facebook then. A perfect illustration of how anonymity is not what enables people to behave badly online.

[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

Old man yells at clouds.

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 9 points 3 days ago

I would never.

[-] bunkyprewster@startrek.website 6 points 3 days ago

So they can arrest you for complaining about zionism

[-] vatlark@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It's clearly a bad idea as a strict rule everywhere.

Some forums require real names, I forget if they validate, but I feel like people are more civil on those.

[-] Coldcell@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago

My name... is... Neo

[-] pewgar_seemsimandroid 2 points 2 days ago

womp womp.

[-] MareOfNights@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 days ago

Based. Get these grifters and bots out of my feed.

[-] WaterSword@discuss.tchncs.de 30 points 3 days ago

So what’s your name

[-] Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip 31 points 3 days ago

And please prove it's your real name with a photo of your ID and a high resolution animated 3D scan of your face and rectum for validation purposes.

[-] oatscoop@midwest.social 2 points 2 days ago

crickets

[-] Fokeu@lemmy.zip 17 points 3 days ago

Hello, unfortunately my automated system detected an unusual behaviour on your account. Please send me a picture of your credit card for verification purposes (both sides)

[-] hector@lemmy.today 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Everyone that uses based like that is suspect. And the government is sponsoring and paying for half of the goddamned bots pal, you can't be this ignorant?