@atomicpoet@socialmedianews Decentralized is not enough. Anonymous and deniable. If you want identity it should be (at most) a key you generated. And if you don't want to "exist" as the old identity anymore, you make a new key and start over. But most likely we don't even want identity in the first place. To pay taxes and get insurance or whatnot, maybe. But not to rant about programming or to discuss repairing old drum machines.
@atomicpoet@socialmedianews If a Government had demonstrated a lack of restraint and transparency in using its authority to restrict speech, we shouldn't give it any more tools.
But anonymity doesn't guarantee free speech, and free speech doesn't require anonymity. It has benefits, but it also very clearly has significant risks, including risks to freedom of speech itself. Bad actors online may be actively opposed to free speech.
I'm not sure the balance is so clearly in favour of anonymity.
@atomicpoet how does a federated social network help, though? Instances serving Vietnamese people will have to comply by the law just like the big guys. Unless you are thinking something more p2p.
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