This is far longer than it needed to be. It’s a rant. A borderline incoherent one.
There is a massive confusion here between anonymity and the physical/online distinction. Anonymity is always hard, even in real life. There’s a reason criminals like masks!
Free speech is the guiding principle because nothing else makes sense and inevitably devolves into hive mind.
Platforms should not be figuring out what speech to limit, they need to figure out how to avoid being publishers. The problem isn’t that they’re hosting bad content, the problem is that they’re promoting/publishing it.
There is a massive confusion here between anonymity and the physical/online distinction. Anonymity is always hard, even in real life. There’s a reason criminals like masks!
Free speech is the guiding principle because nothing else makes sense and inevitably devolves into hive mind.
Platforms should not be figuring out what speech to limit, they need to figure out how to avoid being publishers. The problem isn’t that they’re hosting bad content, the problem is that they’re promoting/publishing it.