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Nikki Haley vows to abolish anonymous social media accounts: 'It's a national security threat'::WPDE covers news, sports, weather, and local events in and around the Grand Strand, Pee Dee, and the Border Belt.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I'm game for this...Republicans would disappear from the net overnight if they had to use their real names.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

I wish that were true but what actually happens is some people are nicer, but asshats are still asshats. People who might have called an asshat an asshat, now just respond politely, but the asshats grow more bold.

So what you'll get is any sense of reasonable Republican to quiet down, and the worst Republicans to speak louder.

Trump can call people vermin and Republicans celebrate. Biden responds that such language is Nazi-like, since we can't call him an actual Nazi, and Republicans scream back that Biden is overreacting.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Right? This is another in a hilarious series of self-owns. The vast majority of problematic accounts are right wing assholes.

[–] Nommer 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Seriously. They are too cowardly to even use their main accounts. A lot of them have alts because they know they're unpopular.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

that bitch take away her name privileges i will not associate with her

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

How exactly does she believe they're going to accomplish this? Serious question cause it doesn't seem possible from where I'm sitting, anonymously.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

It’s not. She’s just stupid.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Can't we just abolish this Nikki Haley instead? Whoever she thinks she is.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

without anonymous i am not really using the internet

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Wait, your real name isn't nutsack? Now see here, what exactly are you playing at bub?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Saw a south park episode like that

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

all this just to find the person with a Vegeta avatar that clowned on them on Twitter or whatever

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

@L4s This dumb broad would need to ban the Federalist Papers, too, since they were anonymous.

McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission ~>

"Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority [.....] It thus exemplifies the purpose behind the Bill of Rights and of the First Amendment in particular: to protect unpopular individuals from retaliation [.....] at the hand of an intolerant society."

www.eff.org/issues/anonymity

Tricky Nikki said:

"Every person on social media should be verified by their name. It’s a national security threat," she said. "When you do that, all of a sudden people have to stand by what they say and it gets rid of the Russian bots, the Iranian bots and the Chinese bots."

Her handlers just want to control all narratives. She doesn't care about Russian bots. Nikki Haley is a bot.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

As long as it's primary season and we're workshopping far right brain farts ... free guns for all kindergartners? Make dogs wear pants? NBA but for white people? Grammy category for songs about how things used to be better?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Can we abolish Nikki Haley instead?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

I'm gonna be interested how that's supposed to work with false positives, err, collateral damage, err, plausibly deniable canceling of free speech of citizens. Nice try.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (5 children)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

What a weak nation. Even internet trolls are security threat to it.

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