A brief coverage of Anonymity and Animosity: The Socio-technical network and the role of Freedom
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چکیده
This paper reviews the issues that arise regarding anonymous communications and transactions. Anonymity bears a burden, and it is argued by some that this burden is the lack of accountability. Through a review of various cases where anonymity has been used for both good and harm, this review does not argue that Freedom is a good thing, as much as it argues that Freedom is an essential technology. That is, the world has changed due to the creation and deployment of technologies of information communication, and within these changes, certain practices have become embedded into our society -and soon, we may see the dissolution of privacy and anonymity. Something must be introduced into the socio-technical network of laws, regulations, technologies, and institutions that will not allow the system of complete perfect identity to stabilise. Once such a network of perfect identity stabilises, returning to a world of even quasi-anonymity will be seen as anti-social, and thus the network will become irreversible.
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