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Originally Posted by drjones
Yea, they can try... they already try to strip any anonymity away from sex offenders, but it doesnt work and it will likely never work.
Look at what a police state China is, yet the people easily circumvent the censorship and tracking mechanisms they have in place. Just what kind of police state would this country have to become in order to take away the pseudo-anonymity that we have on the internet today?
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The anonymous part of the web exists mostly because it was sort of accidently created that way and nobody has fixed it since. The original internet design for everything was "we trust everyone". The only reason we have spam mail today is because the mail system wasn't written to be secure in the slightest.
The base design of the internet is anarchy. It isn't surprising to see how people react to it, no different in the end from a powerfailure at night in a major US city. Suddenly everyone turns into a criminal.
Weird, isn't it?