• max_dryzen@mander.xyz
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    1 day ago

    it’s the anonymity that empowers people to say the absolute worst things.

    humans behave badly when they perceive they have social license to do so. anonymity has little to do with it

    • exhibit A: public robberies of German Jews in the 1930s
    • exhibit B: rwandan genocide
    • exhibit C: any public confrontation video shot during the Covid pandemic

    your second paragraph makes you sound like Larry Ellison. all you’re arguing for is the extension of the capacity of corporations to constrain and coerce invidiual behaviour, which is gross