Should People Take Responsibility for what they do online? AKA no anonymity
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Started: | 4/4/2014 | Category: | Society | ||
Updated: | 7 years ago | Status: | Post Voting Period | ||
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It is well known that many social media online have a anonymous or semi-anonymous function which lead to many people saying the most cruel things that they would probably never say in real life. Many people have been hurt by these so called "internet trolls" and some have even committed suicide due to the harsh comments online. For example, if you are on Omegle just trying to meet new people, all of a sudden someone starts harassing you about your life and looks. Then that person tells you to "go kill yourself". Some of these words are hurtful and I can't believe someone hasn't tried to do something about it yet. My point is that I believe that we should know the actual identity of the people we're talking to and that they have consequences for what they comment. Not exactly like being legally penalized for what they say, just having their identity online just as if they were talking to someone offline.
How will people like Prince Charles be able to troll the interwebz? I mean what if Putin gets bored and wants to post a porn vid of him wanking his 2 inch cock for the humiliation comments that he gets off to without eveyrone knowing it's him? |
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I do get that some famous people may want to talk to people on a normal scale without being made a big deal of. Although I don't agree with your examples because the point of this was to stop trolls and such people from hurting others. Perhaps people can still retain semi-anonymity although they still should take responsibility for what they do. Let's say Prince Charles "trolls" of harasses another person on the Internet (not implying anything about Prince Charles), he should take responsibility for what he has done even though it may affect his reputation. The whole point of this is to not allow people to say such harmful things if they wouldn't say it in real life. But if we don't allow people to insult others then this happens ---------------------------------> http://www.youtube.com... |
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Well of course enforcing my idea will take a lot of work and legal pains-in-the-necks, yet is it not worth it to make the online-community a more pleasant environment? I agree, many people will abuse their rights to report others, but that can be fixed too, on clarifying the qualifications for those privileges, and the actions that will get those privileges revoked. |
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Thanks, I try. Anyways I do understand that the idea I am imposing is almost near impossible at this moment, but every idea has to start somewhere right. And I believe something should be done about Internet trolls. MentallyDefunctNoob forfeited this round. |
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Vote Placed by Wylted 6 years ago
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