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Nikki Haley walks back her demand that social media ban anonymous posters after facing GOP backlash (abcnews.go.com)

submitted 11 months ago by rob299@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Sounds like ones demands have changed, or atleast they got a hold of themselves. whatever lead to them walking back on this, it's the end of another battle for internet privacy, but not the end of the war. As apps continue to track you in new mysterious ways behind their closed sourced software, and the governments continue to crack down on encryption. Anonymous names are important for privacy too.

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[–] yo_scottie_oh@lemmy.ml 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (8 children)

Excerpt from the article:

By Wednesday, Haley had somewhat amended her stance. Asked on CNBC if she was advocating a ban on all anonymous social media posts, Haley said that, while she believed “life would be more civil if we were able to do that,” she was focused on foreign-based actors, not U.S. citizens.

“I don’t mind anonymous American people having free speech; what I don’t like is anonymous Russians and Chinese and Iranians having free speech,” Haley said, not explaining how she would recommend that social media companies parse those users.

Saying DeSantis “wants to let Chinese propaganda machines run wild on social media without any restrictions,” Haley campaign spokesperson Olivia Perez-Cubas on Wednesday added that the onus should be on social media companies to better police anonymous, foreign-based accounts.

“What Nikki doesn’t support is letting the Chinese and Iranians create anonymous accounts to spread chaos and anti-American filth among our people,” she said. “Social media companies have to do a way better job policing that.”

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Has this person ever seen what a news comments section with a "real names required" rule looks like? They're just as much cesspools as anywhere else. People don't care whether their names are attached to their on-line comments.

[–] tomo@reddit.azumanga.gay 6 points 11 months ago

yeah real name or not people are gonna be horrible to each other if they want to already
anonymity will deffo make it more desirable to for the ones who are on the edge tho

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