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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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[–] chakan2@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] MimicJar@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year 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.

[–] phillaholic@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year 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@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year 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.

[–] phillaholic@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Yup. Wouldn’t put it past her to be targeting Trans kids who are seeking help anonymously though.

[–] TeoTwawki@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Repugnantcants need it easier to dox harras and threaten people they dissagree with while claiming its the OTHER group ruining everything.

[–] Cory_t_@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year 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.

It’s not. She’s just stupid.

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[–] Nikki@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Treczoks@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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[–] nutsack@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

without anonymous i am not really using the internet

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[–] Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 7 points 1 year ago

Saw a south park episode like that

[–] IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year 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?

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Can we abolish Nikki Haley instead?

[–] crypto@toot.syfershock.com 6 points 1 year 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.

[–] jmbreuer@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year 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.

[–] uis@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

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

[–] thisisawayoflife@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)
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[–] RojoSanIchiban@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
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