• dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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    20 days ago

    Because it de facto requires everyone using the internet to provide their identity, which is something that gives authoritarian types a huge boner. Once there is no such thing as anonymous discourse, it becomes trivial to target/arrest/harass/brutalize dissenters or indeed anyone the current regime simply doesn’t like.

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      19 days ago

      It gives any gov a huge boner, not just athoritarians, that’s the real problem.