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Zapados@sh.itjust.works to World News@quokk.auEnglish · 3 days ago

Germany's Merz calls for real names on the internet

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Germany's Merz calls for real names on the internet

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Zapados@sh.itjust.works to World News@quokk.auEnglish · 3 days ago
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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has called for an end to widespread anonymity on the internet, saying users should post under their real names. "I want to see real names on the internet.
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    Fuck off

  • CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de
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    It’s worked out well on Facebook. People are more civil there, right?

    • discocactus@lemmy.world
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      Also Nextdoor

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        Especially Nextdoor.

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

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    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?

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    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
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    But this is my real name.

  • Eternal192@anarchist.nexus
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    Why? So he knows who calls him a dickhead so he can sue because we hurt his feewings awww armes häschen!

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

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        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.

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        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.

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

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    Old man yells at clouds.

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    So they can arrest you for complaining about zionism

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    I would never.

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    My name… is… Neo

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    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.

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    deleted by creator

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      I knew you weren’t the real Bender Rodriguez!

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        deleted by creator

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    womp womp.

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