The future is zero privacy/anonymity.
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Inside your home sure. In a town square, most of us already gave away privacy to our smartphones, neighbors Ring videos, etc. Unless you're out in farmland.
De-anon twitter will not completely lose your privacy on the internet. Just the potential for most of it (assuming twit gets more popular and sites choose to go with integrated logins and tracking). And trumps or other alternative never take off.
My point is in some year 3000, i can see right to life being considered a more inalienable right than privacy in a (in your view, distopian) town implementing cameras everywhere resulting in a much lower crime rate and a 0-unresolved-crime rate.
"Most of us already did X" is a nonargument. Twitter will turn into a bigger shit sandwich than it already is. Not believing in privacy is antithetical to liberty because public anonymity is essential to spreading truth without fear of retribution.
Of course for now, places like wikileaks still need to exist. I'm just not bought in to the idea that people really find truths on twitter or how lack of privacy on twitter could make that shit sandwich worse. I imagine it primarily removes the bots and glowies. Or at least makes it a little harder for em.
And because it doesn't make sense to you, other people shouldn't have anonymity? Come on bro. If Twitter wasn't such a threat, the establishment wouldn't be hellbent on censorship.
I dont see censorship increasing nor decreasing based on anonymity. If anything, I'd imagine censorship is easier if the mod is anonymous and if they can group-ban real users with anon bots. That said, I'm not really against anonymity. If this website required ID, i probably wouldnt use it. Just if owners of a private company want members not to be anonymous, I'm also not against that. I could be swayed but so far, i dont see it.