alt Hacker NewsI don't support any chilling effects.
> leads exactly to thriving of bots and propagandists while suppressing dissenting voices of regular people.
This is the current state, today, with anonymity.
> Just look at any country where it is already fully or partially implemented.
Which ones?
>This is the current state, today, with anonymity.
whatever the current state, removing anonymity will remove dissenting voices of regular people.
> Which ones?
Russia for example. The sites where verification is implemented has become pro-government bot cesspools.
Here you mentioned LinkedIn - it is where pro-Russian propaganda runs free (especially if compare to for example HN where people freely respond to it), and it is exactly where my even pretty mild response to it got me almost banned, and so I don’t engage it there anymore.
I wonder how do you square your de-anonymity of speech position with anonymity of voting, or do also think that voting should not be anonymous?