Made me laugh too, so much so I changed their avatars on 440

OrangeDragon wrote:Two, we're talking about if a site owner should be responsible and try to provide that information and take steps to make sure it's available. Morally.

The moral responsibility of a mailman is to make sure that the mail gets delivered. They don't open your mail to map your social relations, sexual behavior, medical records or political opinions. They don't open your mail to make sure that you are complying with the law. It is not the mailman's responsibility.

When discussing anonymity it is often brought up in a bad light such as your mask wearing bar guest analogy. Anonymity is a wonderful thing that allows people to keep private information private. Anonymity allows people to Google their medical symptoms, to ask for legal advice publicly and to contact lawyers and journalists.

Anonymity is, in fact, one of the core foundations of democracy. This forum is not a democracy, I hear you say. No, but anonymity enables us to ventilate as we wish without the fear of repercussions. If we didn't have that then it wouldn't be a very exciting place. Anonymity enables us to say "fuck Hitler", even though Hitler has made it illegal to say so.

Yes, some forums have banned anonymous VPN provider ranges and certain email providers. On the other hand, many others have not. Take 4chan as an example, notoriously known for a wide range of nutfuckery. On 4chan, users are anonymous by default. Sure, crime and spam happens, and the moderation team deals with it accordingly. Despite the very strong anonymity on 4chan, for example there are no signups, no email addresses, and VPN providers are allowed to visit and post, the board continues to exist and has successfully helped authorities catching people in the past.

Even the smallest light shines through the darkest places. Sometimes moral conflicts with the law.

"PB wrote: change my avatar here on RedHeadedStepChild.com"

get with the program. it is stroppychops.com, trading as backstabbers inc.
CEO Gonk.

Delete this

frank lee bent wrote:"PB wrote: change my avatar here on RedHeadedStepChild.com"

get with the program. it is stroppychops.com, trading as backstabbers inc.
CEO Gonk.

No. I was always opposed to the transition from BackStabbers Inc to StroppyChops.com RedHeadedStepChild.com was my preferred choice.

feel free to call it what you like here on the free speech forum

I call it what I like on both forums.

Playboy wrote:I call it what I like on both forums.

Wow, very cool. Such handsome man. Can I touch you and stuff like that?

BOFH wrote:

Playboy wrote:I call it what I like on both forums.

Wow, very cool. Such handsome man. Can I touch you and stuff like that?

No you may not.

Playboy wrote:

BOFH wrote:

Playboy wrote:I call it what I like on both forums.

Wow, very cool. Such handsome man. Can I touch you and stuff like that?

No you may not.

Forget the avatar, the nationality change has got to hurt.