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   :trans_paw:⛧Alex⛧:trans_paw: (alex@boymilk.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Sep-2024 07:47:48 JST :trans_paw:⛧Alex⛧:trans_paw:
   Funny how you attempt to strawman me as hating Jews when Jews are typically among the victims of the kind of thing I'm complaining about. Feel free to continue making baseless assumptions about my political beliefs, though.
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     :trans_paw:⛧Alex⛧:trans_paw: (alex@boymilk.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Sep-2024 11:11:59 JST :trans_paw:⛧Alex⛧:trans_paw:

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     • Taylan
     People with opinions or identities that are unpopular in their society or community will always want to have anonymity to keep themselves safe. Racism, nazism, anti-Semitism, etc are generally unpopular in most societies, and therefore people who support those things are among the people who want to have anonymity. But, likewise, things like being LGBT are unpopular in many communities, especially smaller ones, even in societies where it's accepted by the mainstream. I think the vast majority of LGBT people on fedi wouldn't want to have their names and addresses plastered on their profiles. It goes both ways. Anonymity is a shield that should be available to protect everyone, even the bad actors, because the protection it provides to the most vulnerable groups - the ones at severe risk of actual violence being perpetrated against them, for example - outweighs the protection it provides to those bad actors, who probably aren't even facing consequences as severe as that should their anonymity be broken.
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     Taylan (taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Sep-2024 11:12:03 JST Taylan

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     @Alex There were a bunch of poasties in my notifications and I assumed you're one of them. My apologies. :blobcat-joy:
     
     To give you a more serious response: Disallowing people from using pseudonyms would be authoritarianism. But my point isn't about what should be allowed; it's just an observation about those who play the tough guy on the web while hiding behind a pseudonym.