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| Bizuli |
Posted
on 30-Oct-02 05:18 PM
ANONYMITY ON THE INTERNET
Hi all,
Anonymity means that the real author of the message is not revealed.
Do you support anonymity on the Internet or accountability concerns you more? On one hand, anonymity/pseudonymity protects freedom of speech but on the other hand it can protect a criminal distributing child pornography or computer viruses.
Do back up your claims with your arguments.
~Bizuli..
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| lonely |
Posted
on 30-Oct-02 06:15 PM
It has both advantages and disadvantages, but I think it is doing more harm than benefit.
You can just think about the pronography and stuff distributed ,a dn of course, viruses that we receive everyday ..and not to forget the junk mails.
I think it woulb be better if everyone was to disclose their information, no matter whatever they are sending.
That would have been better I think!!!
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| Poonte |
Posted
on 30-Oct-02 06:20 PM
I would also prefer accountability; however, since it is not realistic to force everyone to reveal their true identities in the internet, I am fine with anonymity being the norm.
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| Logical Sense |
Posted
on 30-Oct-02 06:47 PM
You could achieve best of the both worlds by registering your real identity with some sort of authority, but, for general public you could still remain anonymous.
You could argue against this authority, but, perceive it as something like secret files which is kept secret for so many years and can be made declassified after sometime. Like how congress releases it's documents after many years.
Accountability follows with this approach automatically but, it gives enough previlege to express yourself in the present consent without fear of immediate repurcussion and prejudice.
- iti
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| bhedo |
Posted
on 30-Oct-02 07:14 PM
Anonymity, because it allows me to discuss things freely, without actually thinking about the consequences of my actions. People aren't really going to know me by my postings because I deliberately deliniate myself as Mr Hyde, and you can say that in real life I am Dr Jekyll. In fact, I even vent out my deepest, darkest secrets and desires because nobody can really judge me without knowing me in real life. So, even if you hate me or love me, it doesn't really make much of a difference to me because this isn't who I really am. Writing is just one dimensional, you know. However effusive you are, we can't really know you without meeting you. It's better to stay anonymous, in my humble opinion, because different people are gonna perceive, judge, classify and analyse you differently. The same person who hates your online persona might find your personality charming in real life. So folks, its better to seperate your cyber life from real life.
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| rabi |
Posted
on 30-Oct-02 09:40 PM
I want to vote for anonymity....and for accountibility. No I am not drunk [not at this precise moment, I mean :) ]; I really vote Yes and No. Here's why:
Anonymity "on the Internet" is a vague characterization...akin to saying anonymity "in the world". There are some venues and times, both on the Internet and the wider world, I want to remain anonymous, others when I want to be myslef, and many others when I just don't care.
More interesting questions may be:
Whether anonymity should be allowed in public discussion sites such as Sajha. Why and why not?
How does the option to remain anonymous shape the discussions in venues like Sajha?
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| rabi |
Posted
on 30-Oct-02 09:43 PM
One more:
Given a choice, do you prefer to remain anonymous in venues like Sajha or not? Why or why not?
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| NK |
Posted
on 30-Oct-02 09:59 PM
Bizuli asks:
Do you support anonymity on the Internet or accountability concerns you more? On one hand, anonymity/pseudonymity protects freedom of speech but on the other hand it can protect a criminal distributing child pornography or computer viruses.
Do back up your claims with your arguments.
***
Is this question for real? My dear, if you want a decent half-way thought provoking and well-thought posting on your wanna be serious question, then at least form your question a bit more , umm how shall I say, ... a bit more intelligently?
The premise of your question seems to be anonymity and accountability are two mutually exclusive entities in the net. It does not have to be and it is not. AND then, you jump to the grand ol' theme of Sajha, "freedom of speech."
Could you please make your question more cohorent and understandable? Try, they say only the sky is the limit ;)
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| Poonte |
Posted
on 31-Oct-02 09:35 AM
NK-jee,
Yesto ta bhayena neeeeeeeee :(
Some of us may not be as efficient and eloquent in expressing ourselves in a second languge as you may be--or, some of us may not even be half as intelligent as you are--however, I find it rather unfortunate that people of your caliber should choose to slander those ignorance the way you did.
"Is this question for real? My dear, if you want a decent half-way thought provoking and well-thought posting on your wanna be serious question, then at least form your question a bit more , umm how shall I say, ... a bit more intelligently?" My, oh my!!!!!!!!!
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| NK |
Posted
on 31-Oct-02 11:32 AM
cho chowwwrie. my sometimes cyberpersona. maybe real persona too. also, I thought people here are too eager to please/put forth good words/hesitant to do a constructive critisims of any posting. unless of course it is overtly racist, sexist, or castist.
I thought hey, why don't I take this Herculean task to criticize something I see fit (to criticize)? Now poonte baba, where is my tiara for "The Critique" aka Oh-So-the-Nasty-One. However I do apologize if I sounded condenscending. The art of criticism.... I need to learn, I agree.
But sometimes you know it just comes out what I think at the moment.
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| czar |
Posted
on 31-Oct-02 02:24 PM
Bizuli shocked witless...
Completely grounded, bhitta samayera suk suk gardai thiyo. Poonte, being the gentleman and a scholar he is, offered kleenex and a stiff brandy.
The effect on Bizuli was electrifying ! Really charged up. Sparks flew...!
NK Maisaab, paan khailaba ? ;)
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| VillageVoice |
Posted
on 31-Oct-02 09:57 PM
Anonymity or accountabilty? Interesting.
Say if i am arguing on bahunbad, it helps me if I know where is the argument coming from - are/aren't you a bahun yourself. You may argue why? But think carefully why not? Same with feminism and other issues.
But again, you may ask how far should that identification stretch??? Well, I don't know, really.
Many of us know one another here. So that's accountability, but I sometimes think that can be a handicap too. Say when I don't want to be polite in rebuking someone :)
But then if it were not for accountability, sajha would not be the forum it's become now. In the long run you tend to take seriously posters who are consistent, and cool-headed. Just my thought.
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| Junkie |
Posted
on 01-Nov-02 05:57 AM
Bizuli jee ...... mah tah Junkie huna mai heppy chhu - be it cyber or friday-nites :-). Anyway, not everyone who wears a suit is a lawyer hoina .......
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